A report estimated the cost to stop using oil and natural gas for the USA in 2019 to be $4.5 Trillion and that this is similar to what we USA paid for the “War on Terror”. The 2003 Iraq War cost 1.4 Trillion directly and maybe 2.4 Trillion in finance charges. Note: I am not saying these wars were necessarily due to oil, but they may have gone differently. I wonder how much USA oil wars have cost compared to moving to solar, wind, and battery?

You might find …substack.com/…/the-thermodynamic-limits-of-human relevant.