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Originally Posted by sgtlethargic

I'd love to hear some supporting reasons for this comment.

I'll try to summarize my position so that replies might head in my intended direction:
A. Cars and cheap (to the consumers) energy have been great for humanity in ways, and horrible in ways.
B. Human well-being and ultimately the habitability of the planet are at risk, and much of this risk is due to the burning of fossil fuels.
C. The consequences of taking that risk are so severe that there is no good argument to continue taking (fueling) that risk.

Therefore, from C alone:

D. We need a major shift away from burning fossil fuels.

We should have taken this seriously when Carter was president. If we would've started then, then we wouldn't have to make changes so quickly, now.

Your own circular reason flow chart.
How do you propose to "make a major shift sway from fossil fuels" with out banning them or call it what you will that effectively bans them?
Oil only provides 1/3 of the energy used by the United States, if we stopped using gasoline to power cars that's half the oil used in the United States. That doesn't put much of a dent in a "major shift".