QCMan wrote:
Think about how much better the world will be without oil. No tires, no plastics, no paints, no solvents, no lubricants or any other of thousands of products made from it. Life will be wonderful!
Yes, that would be nice, and may exist in the future. Not exactly practical today.
Genie and I are definitely into the Recycle and Salvage concept as far as it applies today. And alternate energy. We both agree wind and water power, and sun-power will eventually become viable producers of energy.
And, there's always a BUT, when anyone discusses an agenda that makes a radical change in our society, or even our individual cultures within society. We're a long, long way from discarding petroleum as a power producer and byproduct manufacturing. Someday, maybe when technology advances enough that manufacturing the products that even make it attemptable, let alone feasible, we may get there.
Sit in your home sometime, and turn off or throw out everything that contains oil, gas, or a byproduct. Then, you might as will sit in your yard and watch leaves grow. Not a bad idea itself, but certainly not effective in our lifestyle today.
Think about the Brown Recluse spider. It's web is five times stronger than steel of the same diameter, and can stretch two to four times it's length before snapping. And here's that nasty old BUT again, we're decades away from a spider web hammer and nails, or a spider web chisel.
