[Dan Evans]

would have a very strong effect on the politics of conservation and ecology if the main understanding of oil changes from a finite unrenewable resource to a nearly infinite resource.

I think the politics of conservation has already accounted for it and changed from "We're running out of oil" to "CO2 emmissions will destroy the planet".

[Paul C. Jesup]

I think the politics of conservation has already accounted for it and changed from "We're running out of oil" to "CO2 emmissions will destroy the planet".

Sort of like the liberal argument changing from "there are to many people are starving" to "we have to many people that are obese (fat)".