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Aaah, human history as in our "procrastination complex." We sit on our asses untill a bad event comes and THEN do something about it, instead of aim to prevent it BEFORE it happens (examples: complacency concerning terrorist strikes within the US before 9/11 despite its prevalance outside the US, power supply problems in California despite obvious warning signs, etc). Lack of foresight is very, very abundant everywhere you look. And I think it's severe lack of foresight to drill up there. It isn't solving any problem, just creating more. What we need to do is stop drilling oil and start looking for new energy sources... get off the addiction if you will.


Earth is an ecologically closed system. It's resources are finite. Oil WILL run out, and if we do NOT prepare ourselves ahead of time - which we probably won't due to the procrastination complex - we'll have a technology crash sooner than anticipated. Industrialized nations will suffer tremendously and collapse.

But as I said, humanity isn't known for any amazing foresight. There will be a technology crash, because we aren't managing the Earth's resources. It'll take at least one crash for us to learn that lesson and not do it again, unfortunately. But being one who prefers to be optimistic, I'm going to do everything in my albeit insiginfigant power to push people to understand the problem that lies ahead for our children and grandchildren.

Technically, oil and fossil fuels are renewable resources. It just takes a really long time for them to renew. And humans are impatient (grins).

They do have electric and lower fuel using cars, only problem is, they're insanely priced. What are you going to get an insanely priced, but environment conserving car, or a cheap ozone killing car? I'd personally take what's cheapest.

However, there are other ways to get around using cars. Buses are much, much cheaper than the cost of gas. Around Denver busses only cost a grand total of 1.25 to get from one side of the city to the other.

We do need to find a new fuel source, or encourage people to use less gas. We have the technology to make a weapon that can burn someone's skin without leaving any marks, but we refuse to find a way to use better fuel. Brilliant.

yes, but would they keep promoting oil if everyone went to using some other fuel? personally, i'd buy out that with the money from the oil if that happened with me in their shoes.

Yes, conveniece is the key here now. Humans by nature are a rather lazy race that doesn't accomplish anything until they need it to survive. Look at the technology boom during WWII. There has to be something other than solar power for fuel. I've heard of veggie oil being used in cars, and they worked...for a bit.

If we could make a car that ran off electricity, it might work. We have all this technology, that I'm sure we could have computerized cars that simply needed to be recharged at night every other day or had a battery life of two straight days before needing recharging. Hotels could have parking lots with electrical plug-ins for the cars. We have the technology to make those sort of things. We'd be doing a trade off for gas prices for electricity prices. But in the long run you wouldn't have to worry about running out of electricity like you do oil.

Of course I'm no rocket scientist, but I'm sure there's a way to make something like that work.

I've heard of those. But don't you have to plug them in at night or something like that? I don't know how they work.

They sound neat though. It sounds like you'd save alot of $$$ on gas though. Which is always a plus! xp *mutters curses against $2 per gallon prices*

It is a hell of a lot less stable.

Yeah, the unstableness comes from containing only one electron in its outer most shellSImple Chemistry dictates that this is the most unstable form for a molecule/atom.