Everything Silicon Valley Needs to Know About the Oil Crash

Big Tech’s wake-up call that despite excitement about renewables, fossil fuels are far from over

Steve LeVine
Marker
Published in
5 min readMar 11, 2020

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A view of the Rosneft oil rig drilling the first exploration well in the Khatanga Bay as part of the East Taimyr oilfield.
Photo: Vladimir Smirnov/TASS/Getty Images

TTalk to anyone in Silicon Valley or the broader tech world and there is largely one truth: Fossil fuels are dead — all that matter are renewables. After all, Elon Musk is revolutionizing personal

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Steve LeVine
Marker
Writer for

Editor at Large, Medium, covering the turbulence all around us, electric vehicles, batteries, social trends. Writing The Mobilist. Ex-Axios, Quartz, WSJ, NYT.