Doesn’t it occur to anyone that the earth is still manufacturing oil and that it keeps appearing and being discovered because the earth is always making more of it. So let’s use it! We can’t do anything else with it!
The process continues, but if the earth was making oil at the rate we are using it, and it has been doing so, we would be about 6 miles deep in oil across the entire globe.
I’m coming around to the notion that the earth does indeed “manufacture” crude oil and gas. There is just too much of it to have been organic deposits of dead animals. This explains to me why we are finding more and more, and gaining the technology to extract it. On the other hand, I don’t think the earth is replacing the oil at anywhere near the pace we are using it. Otherwise, wells in northeastern Ohio and Pennsylvania that started the American oil boom would not have run dry.
But yes, there is a lot of oil out there, and more is extractable every year. Will we eventually reach “peak oil?” Probably. But I’ll be dead, in the ground, converted to oil, and maybe pumped into somebody’s gas tank before that happens.
The left doesn’t want us to conserve energy because they fear it running out anytime soon -
they just don’t want us to use it because cheap energy = freedom for the common man.