[TexasCowboy]

I'm not upset, and you're not catching my drift.

There are at least a hundred thousand products made from oil which we use everyday of our lives without realizing it.
Getting our cars from the garage to work would be the least of our worries.

Without oil we have no clothes to wear, no food to eat and our homes become the caves of the earliest homo sapiens, without heat or air conditioning.
We could peddle bicycles to work, but when the tires went flat, we'd walk - in shoes until they wore out.
Everything we do in our everyday lives depends on oil.

[editor-surveyor]

"Everything we do in our everyday lives depends on oil."

Everything that we do in our everyday lives will always depand on something, and there will always be doom-sayers telling us that we are about to run out of it, or that it is excessively influencing our foreign policy.

[SunkenCiv]

I agree, and was aware of that. I don't think people who get sucked into the whole "greedy oil companies" rhetoric (or for that matter, "greedy Halliburton" rhetoric) think it through. Oh, well, we don't need to move around as much; we don't need paint, pharmaceuticals, polyester...

[razorback-bert]

I read, but rarely reply to these oil threads, few really realize how oil impacts our life.

I started out to be a nuke engineer, but read the handwriting on the wall, I was in agri chemical R & D, but eco-wackos really killed it. Now I am in the oil field, simply because we can't live without it. I will always find high paying work in it.


I have always been in favor of using up the middle east oil first, then ours.

No one notices that under gov clinton our oil companies became fewer and some of our best minds left the industry; it this had occurred under a Republican, what an out cry would have sounded the media.

My great fear is the BS science grads our colleges are producing are without a clue as to how to develop anything new; because it may harm Gaia.