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Originally Posted by TexasWSP
Eh, too many products are produced by petroleum for it to just disappear. The only thing that will make oil "obsolete" is if we run out of it.......and nobody knows when that will be, regardless of what "experts" report in the newspaper. As long as crude can be extracted from the ground it will be utilized to a great extent, even if it isn't needed for cars.
Even if it does happen in that time span, it isn't like oil and gas companies will be hurting. There are oceans of natural gas in this country that are just now being explored, thanks in part to things like horizontal/directional drilling, which is a very new technique.
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Aside from plastics, what else will "petroleum" be used for? I am just tired of the "cartels" fixing prices and fools enjoying paying for it because there are
NO other VIABLE choices. And it is my understanding from the journal "Science" that "accessible" oil in the Earth going to run out soon--in geologic time--maybe 100 to 200 years... Accessible means usable and not difficult to access without destroying the environment. To me, that is a short amount of time to use up natural resources given that humans (in their modern form) have only been on this planet for ~200,000 years. Do we really need that much carbon to function?
Did you hear about the stopped up toilet on the space station... LOL...