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by biohacker42 6140 days ago
The important question is: What does the demand curve for oil look like?

I think the sane peak oil advocates are asking exactly that. It's not that we are running out of oil, it's that we are running out of cheap oil. And that's going to mess up the world economy. Things don't look good when oil goes above $80 a gallon.

But I've heard that we can synthesis gasoline from air and water using electricity from nuclear power. Anyone know what that costs per gallon?