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Thing is, even if everyone knew about this, the vast majority wouldn't change their oil consumption anyway. We'll have to rely on higher prices and government taxation to reduce the usage of it. Thankfully, things like hydrogen fuel cells created by solar energy (technology which we need to improve upon) will hopefully be able to take up a lot of the slack.
I'd personally prefer that we move away from fossil fuels (and oil/gas in particular) as energy sources purely for the environmental impact. Natural gas and coal (when burned in a proper plant, coal is actually almost as clean as natural gas) are much nicer on the air. Leave the oil for plastics and stuff.
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