The article may have some merit, but I HATE this "addiction" simile. The correct comparison is water. Oil is no more an addicting drug than water is. We need water to live. Our economy needs oil to live. There is no forthcoming replacement. The greenies need to get over it.
The next time a liberal needs an ambulance, police car, limo, airplane, fire truck, etc. I DEMAND that they end their addiction to oil and go without!
The ignorance on the left about this topic is really stunning. Oil is used for so many other things besides gasoline/diesel/transportation it's ridiculous. Oil is so much more than fuel. Remove oil from your life and you remove many, if not most, things that make life "modern", i.e., plastics, pharmaceuticals, solvents, chemical precursors used in virtually every area of chemistry, etc. The list is endless. Not only that, but there isn't a substance on the planet that is "organic" than oil......
Oil has advanced our civilization to heights that no other material or element ever will. It's a simple and undeniable fact. Take even a small portion if it away, and our whole way of life would change dramatically.