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by schiffern 665 days ago
It makes no difference. Saudi Arabia won't stop pumping gas because it's not carbon neutral.

edit Depleting their entire reserves of gas would be stopping because it's unsustainable, not because it's not carbon neutral. Also that sounds like a really bad idea.

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Running out of gas in the ground will do that though.
We will not run out for hundreds to thousands of years.

We also can't afford to stop using it by "running out" since that implies we burned it all.

Sadly there seems to be reserves[1] for quite a long time. The real question is how much of the reserves are profitable to exploit.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_g...