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ICE aren't going to go away any time soon. Battery tech has a long way to go before it can compete with the energy density of liquid dinosaurs, and if it did there are plenty of cases where ICE has major advantages over battery power. But even if say 90% of the vehicles on earth could be replaced with electric, should we really stop innovating on that last 10%?

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https://www.thoughtco.com/does-oil-come-from-dinosaurs-10920...

>Tiny Bacteria, Not Huge Dinosaurs, Formed Oil

>try to grasp the concept of deep geologic time, a talent possessed by very few people. Try to wrap your mind around the enormity of the figures: bacteria and single-celled organisms were the dominant forms of life on earth for a whopping two and a half to three billion years, a virtually incomprehensible stretch of time when measured against human civilization, which is only about 10,000 years old, and even against the reign of the dinosaurs, which lasted "only" about 165 million years. That's a lot of bacteria, a lot of time, and a lot of oil.

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