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They have made huge, huge fossil fuel discoveries recently. Just the Appalacian Basins have enough gas and oil to feed the USA for 550 years at current consumption rates. The trouble is US and especially world consumption rates are sky rocketing. Every developing country has increased demand and China will surpass US usage shortly if they haven't already.
Eventually we must learn to use hydrogen in fusion reactors or even better to economically use sunlight to crack water into hydrogen and oxygen and then burn it back to water again. That's a nice clean way to turn sunlight into fuel that is compatible with our current combustion technologies. Fusion is very hard to control and many decades away but we aready know how to use solar energy to crack water and reburn the H and O elements back to water. We now need to figure out how to do it cheaply. Until then , we rely on fossil fuels for heat and transportation. That needs to stop.
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