Quote Originally Posted by Lyle View Post
Oil is a natural substance and was made before humans were here and various gases and substances are found on other planets which have (we can assume) never sustained life and therefore this idea that oil is made up of fossils is kind of silly.


We have more oil on this earth than we can use in my lifetime and I plan on living a while....I mean if we really buckled down and used more everyday then MAYBE we'd hit a couple bumps in the road due to the refining process but there's plenty oil out there.

Forget everything you think you know about oil
The problem with that thinking is you leave it to someone else down the line to deal with. Sure we have enough, but if we remain dependent on it when it does go into short supply then the prices rocket through the roof and industry becomes crippled. And think about what has happened to gas prices while we've had enough. In 1997 I paid (however briefly) $.70 per gallon and could fill up my tank for less than $10. A little over a decade later and we've crept over $4. With sky high demand that will only increase in the coming years you really don't think we need to do anything to diversify where we get our energy from?