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Originally Posted by rmay635703
If we really WANTED to produce our own oil...
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Now here's a place where some logical thinking can be applied. A good place to start is by looking to see if we are asking the RIGHT question. DO we actually want to produce our own oil? Or do we really want to keep on moving ourselves and our goods from A to B at a reasonable cost, and with a certain degree of comfort & convenience?
Now if you start expanding on that question, you can easily reach the logical conclusion that in fact we don't want to produce our own oil. For instance, internal combustion engines are noisy, inefficient, pollute the air, and require the user to financially support a large infrastructure (i.e. "Big Oil") at the mercy of a finite resource. So logically we'd prefer to devote resources to developing electric cars and such.
Or we might apply the logic to commuting: many jobs in this information age can be done by telecommuting. Why would we logically want to spend hours of our time and buckets of money travelling to do what can be done from our own homes?
The point I'm trying to make is that logic is a tool that depends on your starting assumptions. If those assumptions are faulty, so are the answers. GIGO, remember? Garbage In, Garbage Out.