“Lastly, we are almost literally awash in hydrocarbons that can be converted into usable fuels. So stop worrying!”
I hear you. I shake my head at times when going through the checklist of “problems” we have. Every one is entirely the result of, or greatly exacerbated by, fatuous, wrong, perverse leftwing or globalist policy. Our injuries and limitations are for the most part self inflicted.
Either we wise up or crash and burn. Either way, the clever people who brought us to this pass will be thin on the ground.
And if we run low on conventional hydrocarbons, and after we use up all our hydrocarbon-rich sewage sludge, there are methane hydrates to mine.
Gas (Methane) Hydrates — A New Frontier
Methane trapped in marine sediments as a hydrate represents such an immense carbon reservoir that it must be considered a dominant factor in estimating unconventional energy resources; the role of methane as a ‘greenhouse’ gas also must be carefully assessed.
Dr. William Dillon,
U.S. Geological Survey
Gas hydrates occur abundantly in nature, both in Arctic regions and in marine sediments. Gas hydrate is a crystalline solid consisting of gas molecules, usually methane, each surrounded by a cage of water molecules. It looks very much like water ice. Methane hydrate is stable in ocean floor sediments at water depths greater than 300 meters, and where it occurs, it is known to cement loose sediments in a surface layer several hundred meters thick.
The worldwide amounts of carbon bound in gas hydrates is conservatively estimated to total twice the amount of carbon to be found in all known fossil fuels on Earth.
from:
http://marine.usgs.gov/fact-sheets/gas-hydrates/title.html
Amen Brother.