Cultivation facilities will be required to pay a 15 percent excise tax on the wholesale sale of recreational marijuana. Retail purchases of retail marijuana will be subject to state and local sales tax. Retailers will collect sales tax from consumers and remit it to the state.
However, fossil fuels continue to supply nearly 80 percent of world energy use through 2040. Natural gas is the fastest-growing fossil fuel, as global supplies of tight gas, shale gas, and coalbed methane increase.
Your answer: Worldwide use of renewables, such as geothermal and wind power, grew faster than fossil fuels. It is predicted that the transition from fossil fuels to renewables will take another 100  200 years. Renewable forms of energy are economically inexpensive. Humans now rely primarily on renewable forms of energy.