I don’t understand why there’s no secondary option if Strait of Hormuz goes down. Obviously there are alternative routes out there but why big gas companies even governments did not see this coming. Are they okay losing billions? Or do they actually have a plan that ordinary people don’t know about?

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    The Thing is that a very big Part of the damage could have been at least weakened if the renewables wouldve been expanded upon at the time people sounded the Alarm.

    But for some mysterious and definitely not evil, meaning short sighted, profit driven reason renewables werent build in a capacity that was necessary.

    The knowledge that oil could become a liability is, depending who you ask,already about 50 years old.

    What could that be called If there is Problem in the Future that is definitely coming but acting would cost Money that is not immediatly coming in again…?

    Short something… Maybe Profit something…

    Ah! Betting the foundation of human civilization that some magical technology will surely be developed in time and If we dont get it in time we deserve the apocalypse as species, since we dissapointed the invisible Hand of the Market.