A second Trump term might slow the process – there wouldn’t be the same investment in alternative energy, more federal land would be opened to fracking and more offshore waters to deep sea drilling and the US definitely wouldn’t recommit to the Paris accord – but it wouldn’t change the course of history.
The pandemic has already probably brought the point at which demand for oil (peak oil used to refer to a peak in supply, now it relates to a peak in demand) begins to slide.
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The damage and likely permanent changes it has wrought to transport, particularly aviation, as demand…
