Bears repeating -- BTTT
I'm "addicted" to my 4x4 vehicles that don't get trapped in a snow drift. We just had 5 inches of snow last night in Pocatello. It definitely screwed up my air travel, but I didn't have to worry about whether my wife would have trouble getting home from work when her shift ended at 7 AM.
Fantasy. If we stopped using gasoline tomorrow, it wouldn't change the big picture of petroleum consumption vs production.
Why is it everyone in this country sees gas consumption as the boogy man in the crude oil story? A barrel of crude can (more or less) be cracked into fixed percentages of petroleum derivitive products. IOW, the part that becomes gasoline is basically unusable as some other product. If you use less gas, that portion of the barrel cannot be then turned into heating oil. When 60% of the US is blocked from oil/energy exploration, particularly when some of that area is extremely fertile for energy, the problem is inevitable.
There is no shortage of oil, simply the political will to allow it to be harvested.
Repeat after me, the United States government is the boogyman here.