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Originally Posted by Wolfy  But it's made very slooooowly. |
Exactly. It takes millions of years to make it, and it takes virtually no time for us to burn the end product.
If you know you've got a finite resource, it only makes sense to stretch it out as much as you can.
That will buy us time to develop 21st century energy sources instead of using something that was first used in the 19th century.