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Originally Posted by AKA_Monet
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?
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I'm sure you can easily find a list of petroleum by-products. It's more than just plastics. I'm not arguing that oil is going to run out, I'm saying that crude production won't be "obsolete" in the amount of time you first indicated. Regardless, oil and gas companies are moving away from focusing primarily on crude production anyways.
Are you trying to say that oil companies blatantly create high gas prices for their personal gain knowing that the country has to pay for it?? Just asking....I kind of sense that from the "cartels" and "fixing prices" remarks.
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