Talk:Remnant/@comment-30991932-20160903231426/@comment-410526-20160904012057


 * That said, petroleum has uses beyond combustion for power. Medicine, plastic, asphalt, oil for maintaining engines. I suspect they would still need to acquire petroleum, and different kinds offer different uses. Even once we stop using fossil fuels, we'll still need a fair amount of petroleum for our modern society.

That's actually a point I was going to make in support of my point. Why use it for creating an inefficient, impractical and useless fuel (compared to Dust) when the opportunity cost is literally all the other things you can use it for (like as you mentioned, making plastics, polymers or other uses)? It just doesn't make sense. Especially when the infrastructure needed to do so on a large scale simply doesn't exist.