As to oil alternatives, there are many. I have worked on some nutty ones (Bio-fuels, great fun) to the more sane. The best, IMHO, is using coal to make synthetic fuel. It is a proven technology, and from an abundant resource in the USA. There is also catalytic conversion of waste products, which can't replaced everything used in oil but does help in turning things like say, waste meat from a packing plant, to some lighter hydrocarbons.
Of course the oil companies don't want coal gas, and have been actively lobbying against it since at least the 1950’s. Old Ike also made a strategic decision to use Saudi oil (Saudi being a recent British creation) in order to drive them into our sphere of influence.
The other partial problem with coal is that it takes a lot of water. You can recover some of it, but the process itself consumes H2O. It has been a while since I played with it, and since I compared it to a traditional oil refinery, but if I remember right it was at least 25% more water intensive. Though I suspect that oil sands use more water in total that either sweet crude or coal conversion.
Again, I will ask you a simple question.
Do you as a person have any right to private property, or does the State's perceived need (or a corporation's lobbying) trump all property rights? For this is what it is really about. The land owners don't want to sell. A foreign owned and managed company, with a majority of non US citizen employees, wants that land (and to not be held accountable for spills).
Does the private citizen have any real property rights?
Your second paragraph mute also. Sorry but you know there is no manufacturing of enough of these products to replace oil ... thus mute.
Your third paragraph is not mute but instead again not enough can be manufactured to replace oil.
On to your question:
Does the private citizen have any real property rights?
yes, but as Samuel Clemons said, *Neither life, liberty, or private property rights are safe while the legislature is in session* or similar. In this case the legislature made a decision. The People's legislature made a decision. The legislature was well within their rights to make law. I'll have to live with that because I do not go shooting up legislative bodies nor judges either. The judge made a grave error. This judge knows that the decision made by the judge was a grave error. Don't know the judge's motivation but it is what it is and since the judge is human; Most humans require Motivation but from the judge's motivation came I do not know.
I pray you do not think I've been harsh. Have been up and busy for going on thirty hours plus. At my age doing that is a killer for my brain activity. If you think I owe you an apology ... okay, you have your opinion and mine.
I am for Jobs for all Americans. This judge took jobs away from Americans. Do you not wonder why this judge took jobs away from Americans? I do.