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I agree with much of what you say, but perhaps for different reasons.I don't consider the CO2 and greenhouse gas issue to be a matter of "belief", but rather an issue of whether or not a person is ignorant of the facts.
Nonetheless, "belief" or not, fossil fuels are on their way out. The world still has huge reserves but they are increasingly difficult to tap into. Our usage of fossil fuels is exponential. Even something like oil... the demand increases by millions of barrels per day. It's not sustainable, not just environmentally but economically. We have to excavate increasingly precarious locations in order to find what we need.
It would make more sense to convert what we can to renewable energy sources, while using fossil fuels in areas that we can't yet compromise on, until further solutions are invented.
In other words, why does it have to be a zero sum game? Most countries are implementing dual policies. It's foolish to do otherwise.
I think the market will force the energy suppliers to produce man made fuels, because the feedstock to the refineries
will be cheaper to make than to find and extract from the ground.
They may have a different pump color at the gas station for the carbon neutral fuel, but beyond that it's use would be transparent.
We need to be busy putting up solar roofs, because the surplus photo voltaic power is what will be stored in the hydrocarbon fuels.