oil ? How could ANYTHING be transported to your town.. . .without oil ?
If oil supplies were cut-off tomorrow, don't you realize that life as you know it would STOP ?
2007-01-15 23:22:25 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I know this is difficult to believe, but factories and business operated long before the use of oil and electricity as an energy source. And if all the oil wells dried up tomorrow, business would go on.
Prior to coal and oil, the U.S. economy was fueled by wood and water. Waterwheels ran industrial machinery. Wood was burned to produce steam. Wood was cheap and easy to harvest.
BY the 1870s, however, most of the available forest had been cut down, and the country faced a wood famine. Everyone at the time was sure the country faced ruin. But capitalism found another energy source: coal and oil.
You need to quit worrying about the oil supply. For more than 50 years, people have been saying we will run out of oil one day. Don't you think that the oil companies with their trillions of dollars in assets are prepared for the future? Oil is still the cheapest energy source. When it runs out, we will go on to another energy source without missing a step.
Here's a peek into the future. A company in S. Africa has developed roofing material that produces electricity. This material has the potential to make every home energy independent. If every existing home in the U.S. uses this roofing material, we would cut coal and oil usage by 40%. If this technology can be applied to film coatings like paint, every painted object has the potential to produce electricity.
2007-01-16 00:33:55 · answer #1 · answered by Overt Operative 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Did you know that in the 60's they were talking about a revolutionary electric car which never seen the light because it wouldn't generate as much money as oil?
Did you know that the sun provide energy?
Wind too
So is water
Did you know that the NASA space shuttle don't even use oil but it can go into space?
Do you really think everything wouldn't work anymore without oil?
I do not.
What you can do about it?
Refuse to use oil. Or lower you consumption to the very minimum.
What will they do when no one wants oil anymore? They'll find something else. Will it be better? Maybe or maybe not but we're still far from then and we wont know before trying it.
2007-01-15 23:34:31 · answer #2 · answered by Juhanah 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is nothing wrong with looking for ways to decrease our dependence on oil. Particularly from the Middle East and countries who are hostile to the US.
But I don't think this was your point, was it?
The bottom line is, Iraq is not about oil. But there is not one reason I can think of that radical Islamic terrorists should get control of the oil in the middle east.
And as a respectful reply, in aside, it becomes our problem when the sale of oil is for the purchase of arms to destroy the free world.
2007-01-16 00:07:02 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wouldn't stop, it would change form. If the oil supplies came to a sudden halt tomorrow, we would be forced to change our so called "needs". Humans being as they are, I am sure we would come up with alternatives to oil gluttony. And probably to the benefit of all concerned.
As an aside, respectfully, perhaps Ruth should consider that radical Islamists or not, the oil belongs to their countries. They should be able to do with it as they wish without interference or fear of reprisals from the energy hogs of the world. Everyone should try looking past the ends of their own noses for awhile to see if there can be some sort of compromise to these situations.
2007-01-16 00:59:38 · answer #4 · answered by Slimsmom 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They think it is only gasoline(the least use of oil and essentially before the internal combustion engine a waste byproduct). That every thing from the roads they drive on to the toilet seat they set on is an oil derivative is lost on them.
Alternative fuels are great but they will not reduce our dependency on oil. There is no renewable alternative for this substance that permeates our lives.
2007-01-15 23:42:12 · answer #5 · answered by Tommy G. 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your hypothetical question does not absolve our need to search for alternate means of procurring energy.
2007-01-15 23:32:22 · answer #6 · answered by emiliosailez 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I do know that it is a national security issue.
2007-01-15 23:28:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Funny thing is, the environmental nutcases want that.
2007-01-15 23:29:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Then we would just start drilling Alaska.
2007-01-15 23:31:19 · answer #9 · answered by redneckking_99 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don worry US have their army in middle east
2007-01-15 23:26:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋