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if the oil industry, quite prudently, isn't well aware that oil is a dead end?

No, oil is used for too many things, forget fuel, think medicine and anything using carbon as a basic building block.

You can start with benezene (eco-wackos hate it) and built just about an organic compound.

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Well #*&^% my Y in any got lost in cyberspace.