You can reduce the extent of fuel purchase, but you cannot avoid buying fuel. I can avoid buying coffee. Therefore, the coffee argument is a strawman. How wrong I'm not.
Actually you can.
You can walk, lite candles, get a wood stove, get an "ice-box", grow a "victory-over-fuel" garden in your back yard, and a zillion other things.
You CAN.
Whether or not you WANT to, is your choice and not a "strawman", to essential economics.
It was not a coffee "argument." It was an EXAMPLE. (shaking head and rolling eyes)
I am usesless without coffee. I could ride my bike to work as long as a had a strong mug of good joe.
The 'net would cease to function, we're all 'Java Junkies'. Everybody is forced to pay the cost of coffee everytime they log onto the net.