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“You know, renewables substitute coal and gas in the electricity sector, but basically as a direct primary energy source, renewables right now have nothing to do with oil.”

“Despite strong technology leaps in batteries, electric cars, and automobile efficiency, we are still as dependent on oil as ever.”

“The Hawaiian Islands collectively get 60% of electricity from burning imported oil or diesel.”

“Hydrogen is much harder and much more costly to move around the world than putting oil on a tanker is.”

“I think it's fair to say that Saudi Arabia has more influence in global geopolitics because they are the only country, even though shale can be ramped up and down more quickly than traditional oil. They're the only country that intentionally, at a cost to them…”

“I said, we're going to need oil for at least another decade, and that's going to exceed... And beyond that, we're gonna need it.”

“Because for Putin, oil is about money, and natural gas is about geopolitics.”

“The majority of power in Hawaii is still from burning oil, actually, because that's what you can ship in.”

“It's a quarter of all the coal, oil, and natural gas that we burn in the world is for industrial heat.”

“If you look back to 1800, even biomass today is used more than it was in the 1800. Oil is used more. Gas, coal, everything is used more. And solar and wind were simply additive.”