Eli5 of we can make lab diamonds on a large scale why can’t we do the same for oil and gas.

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Eli5 of we can make lab diamonds on a large scale why can’t we do the same for oil and gas.

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Answer 1

We *could* probably but the problem is that we would be expending oil to make oil. Not literally but we would be consuming energy to make the thing to consume for energy.

It works out better that we consume the dense energy that millions of years have provided for us.