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Bill, this raises a conundrum as to whether we have sufficient Ph.Ds in mathematics to develop and solve—or code developers to write the software—the complex differential equation that is suggested by this. Perhaps an employee or two or three of ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Co. could make a career shift and create the model for winding down the production, refining, transportation and retail distribution under a variety of constraints and policies to do with CapEx, Market Cap, debt pay down, oil patch shut-down, dismantling and clean up of wells facilities and pipelines, refineries and long haul pipelines—what I call “final expense”—as well as removing all future emissions associated with crude and gas produced and refined AND an equal amount (X2) to remove past/legacy emissions associated with historical crude and gas produced and refined, in order to bring atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and CH4 down to 280-350ppm and 750ppb, respectively.

Oh! And BTW, the tanker in the photo was scrapped in in Barcelona in 1977 after only 15 years of service.

I didn’t know that beforehand—in fact I didn’t know that I didn’t know that—before today. http://www.aukevisser.nl/uk/id189.htm

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