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Originally Posted by sid
....I also feel that we will probably never find an alternative fuel that is as cheap and versatile as oil was in the last century. Oil will just keep rising in cost until other fuels start to appear more practical. We will also change our lifestyles accordingly, and we will probably feel then that we have made a lot of progress and question why anyone would have even considered using such a primitive concept as private internal combustion vehicles in the first place.
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I agree 100%!
And I wonder if we will look back someday and think of this period in time as the Dark Oil Age, when it finally dawns on us, what we have done to ourselves and to the planet that supports our life.
As mentioned previously, the planet will not care one way or the other, but we certainly will.
I think right now we should "save" cheap oil for farmers and such, or those services that make or break our life on this planet. Save it for processes that do not have adequate battery power for example, or with current technologies that are hard to replicate without oil.
I do not "need" or "require" much oil to drive to work and back. Save it for purposes that enable our lives here. If I had an EV and a nice solar array, I could drive to work and back on "free" and renewal energy. P.S. the batteries need to be something other than NiMH, as mine have dropped capacity immensely this year with the summer heat. They would not last in the South.
Very interesting discussion.
Jim.