Elon Musk Charmingly Defeating a Room Full Of Oil Giants

if there was a button i could press to stop all hydrocarbon usage today i would not press it you would not press it okay did you expect him to say that [Music] what kind of a threat do you think you are to the oil and gas industry well i don't think we're much of a threat i mean yet you know yet um but um i i mean you know the the more obvious threat is that we're gonna run out of uh hydrocarbons to mine and burn that that's rather obvious i mean uh it's not equivalent so no time soon judging from the comments we've had this morning so it's getting hotter and harder to find uh hydrocarbons and it's getting much more expensive to extract them and really we're just arguing about the when uh hydrocarbons run out or become prohibitively expensive not if i mean i don't think it is there's anyone here who would say there's it's an if not a win i mean you are you know a tech guy right you're a physicist and an engineer you call yourself the chief architect of yeah yeah you don't think human ingenuity and technology and resourcefulness will mean that we will still have abundant fossil fuels available i mean this has been going on they think you've reached the boundaries and yet they find more and you know look at the whole shale gas revolution there are there are time extensions on the game but the game is going to come to an end that should be absolutely certain obviously frankly but the um i'm i'm i i don't have any i don't have any fundamental dislike of hydrocarbons i simply look at the future and say what is the thing that will actually work um it and using a non-renewable resource um obviously will not work so we must find an alternative but if i if there was a button i could press to stop all hydrocarbon usage today i would not press it you would not press it of course not you would not press it because human civilization to come to a halt every hospital would have to close that's ridiculous so there would be irresponsible press that button um but what does need to happen is to if we can accelerate the transition towards renewables that's the sensible thing to do um and um you know if you take uh say i mean just maybe two examples uh saudi arabia since the saudi aramco president spoke here the uh saudi arabia has an enormous amount of sunlight and that that that will be there for billions of years or at least one billion years until sun eventually engulfs us but a billion years solid so it seems that um you know in investing in the the solar resource is the thing that that's really going to preserve the the long-term future not not so much the oil and gas i mean that's that's a temporary thing in the future we'll look back and by future i'm not talking about super far in the future i'm talking about towards the end of the century we will look back on gasoline powered cars the same way look we look back on coal as sort of a quaint anachronism that's in a museum that's the quote for you members of the press at the back of the hall you

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Length: 3min 22sec (202 seconds)

Published: Sun May 02 2021

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[u/bazyli-d]

Simple logic. Thanks Elon