God also gave us the sun, corn, radioactive elements, rivers, wind, swamp gas, what's your point! Do you believe using only oil is the smartest way? Use the brain God gave you and you will realize that if we unscrupulously use only nonrenewable forms of energy that are easy to tap, soon future generations of our ever expanding population will have less resources than we do to work with. There is no way to prevent it, but we can reduce our use and hope that with improved technology they'll have a better standard of living even with reduced resources.
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There will be a free market solution to replace petroleum as an energy source when it is feasable, practical, and profitable and NECESSARY. Not until. Oil IS the lifeblood of the American economy. What should be being worked towards now is increasing the petroleum final products, gasoline, propane heating oil. Not HOPING for “pie in the sky” feel good, “green”, government subsidised alternative energy “solutions” while the American economy goes in the tank!