Speaking of infrastructure, I’d love to ask of the politicians pushing this crap one simple question: What are you proposing we use to pave and repair the thousands of miles of roads, driveways and parking lots that are currently made with asphalt? Asphalt, of which the main ingredient is bitumen, is a byproduct of the gasoline refining industrial process you’re hoping to make obsolete. So what entirely new, non-oil substance are you going to invent and scale up to rival evil earth killing asphalt? And while we’re at it, you need 30 gallons of oil to make one set of car tires, so leaving oil behind, are we going back to wooden spokes and steel hoops?
Some of the lowest IQs are in politics, I swear….
You answered your own question. Oil is too precious to burn to the sky it should be used to make products that can be recycled into new products. Every geologist knows the mantra mine once use many.
For every 30 gallons you burnt once to the sky you can make a tire that can be retread a number of times then shredded and reduced to steel for melting, rubber that can be liquefied and mixed with new isoprene which can be synthesized from carbon monoxide and hydrogen BTW. Isoprene is the base rubber polymer from there you can go to any rubber this is world war two tech.
As soon as humans can move to using oil for durable goods only the longer it will last for future generations. It makes no.sense to burn in two centuries what took the planet 400+ million years to make and accumulate that’s generational selfishness. We as a species have the tech to move on to longer lasting resource management and should boomers don’t care because y’all expect to die before depletion. Fortunately you all are now outnumbered two to one by the younger generations who finally are saying no we won’t let you burn like drunken sailors then leave us to deal with 8+ billion people who all want and need middle class levels of resource access.