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In reply to the discussion: I got up at 3:45AM to get gas on LI... [View all]Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)Use of limited natural gas to motivate four wheel livings rooms is a waste at 10% efficiency.
The highest use of limited natural gas resources is as home/commercial heating (90%+ efficiency) during the transition to ground source heat-pumps (at 300% efficiency-they are an energy source wrt heating).
EV is the only viable path forward for personal transport at 70% efficiency.
Of course, planning involves regulation. So, in the end, money will continue to be thrown into the box canyon that is fracking, deep offshore, arctic, etc. until the day there is realization that these are marginal energy resources that were only viable due to mining of the remaining high-quality non-renewable energy resources.
By then, it will be too late, since it takes energy to to create the infrastructure to harvest renewable energy.