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30/08/2023

From ’Inconvenient truths’ to today’s commodity-driven coverage: The Good Oil is here to stay for a few decades yet.

Still, we can we use it to our advantage.

Not so fast

The world is grappling with how to make up for years of ignorance and avoidance by trying to do too much too soon with insufficient infrastructure. The misguided herd mentality of switching (pardon the pun) to electric vehicles in the exaggerated belief that this will have a material effect ...

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