It is by far the largest slice of that pie

still not mostly

"Laregest", yes, "mostly", no

And it says road transport

I said all transport

thought i forgot what you were argueing about.

Planes trains and boats inckuded

If it was an election it would win, majority enough?

Which they have included separately

So yes mostly oil is used for transportation

@Lucienne d'Anwyl what are you even argueing for right now?

That oil is mostly used for transportation?

It was a basic statement

I don't know why you lot attempted to refute it

It is used in small scale generators sure, but it's nothing compared to natural gas or coal

and what was that impact on the "climate change" arguement?

I don't know I didn't make one

But the oil industry is not in competition with the nuclear industry

ah, ok

And fossil fuels and their companies are not monolithic and should be treated as such

Monolithic no, monopolistic yes

yah the people who are against nuclear are typically the same sort of alarmists, they think that it is dangerous or some such.

I'm pretty sure that there are a bunch of competing companies for oil and coal

I dunno what you mean by monopolistic there

This isn't exactly he age of rockefeller

I'm all for nuclear. We've figured out thorium. It doesn't try to kill us for breathing

I dunno why people think uranium or plutonium is bad

the only real nuclear disaster I can think of was Chernobyl, and I'm pretty sure there are a dozen reasons why that would never happen again.

They're fine

No need to use other fuels

There were several others that were almost a disaster.

Oligopolies are essentially monopolies with loopholes. I'll treat them the same until they start acting different

I don't know what you're asking for here

There are only so many sites to obtain these resources

And thus there can only be so many extraction companies

it's also rather capital-intensive to get started, especially with the regulations such as they are.

No, there's only so many sites that have been established for extraction. It's expensive set up and therefore restrictive to market entry

A lot of businesses are capital intensive

And so what?

That's most industries nowadays

Hard for non established companies to gain a foothold