2007-11-23 11:28:25 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I wish Bush had done nothing about Irak's oil and you would riding one horse sleigh....
2007-11-23 12:06:39 · update #1
There would be famine, starvation, and disease over the entire planet.
That would be GREAT for Al Gore & and gang of Environmentalists.
Gore could fly around in his private jets and look at all the dead bodies laying around.
(He must have had some oil stored up for himself.)
2007-11-23 11:40:49 · answer #1 · answered by dinamuk 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sure there would! What the heck do you think they did before cars that used gas, they rode horses! Heated homes & cooked with coal or wood. There was life in the U.S. before we started to use oil in excess. If you took a trip, you took the train which was run on coal. If you went to Europe or the orient, you took a slow boat, run on coal! It was only after the 2nd W.W. that the U.S. turned to oil, we thought we had an ample supply & would never run out! There was life & perhaps a better quality of life, before we became so dependant on oil. Of course, I'm not too sure that didn't contribute a great deal to global warming!
2007-11-23 11:56:12 · answer #2 · answered by geegee 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Of course. There was national security long before oil was even an issue.
As far as energy goes, if not oil, then some other commodity would be in place.
2007-11-23 11:36:35 · answer #3 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We would be a very different nation had oil never become an issue. Lincoln would have still fough the civil war to keep the union together, but we probably wouldn't be trying to conquer any countries outside the americas.
2007-11-23 11:42:48 · answer #4 · answered by Guardian 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
America and in fact the entire world must move forward without oil. One day, we will deplete the fossil fuels and be forced to switch to alternative energies.
2007-11-23 11:55:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We don't need oil now.
There are plenty of alternative fuels from Bio Diesel to ethanol, to solar, to wave, to tidal, to wind, to geo thermal, to Nuclear and beyond.
Plastics can be made from glass and cellulose fibers derived from soy beans.
We may still need some petro chemicals but we are already drilling enough oil right here to cover that.
Just by replacing all diesel to bio diesel would allow us to pick and choose who we get imports from and at what price.
The next step is to transfer some or all of the responsibility of keeping the Persian gulf open to the countries that would need it more than us. EUROPE and asia. That would allow us to cut our military spending by more than 50% and still do a better job of protecting the homeland.
It's a no-brainer.
2007-11-23 11:47:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Think about the question you just asked.
there was a USA before we knew about fossil fuels and we had national security.
When all the fossil fuels on earth are dried up and gone we will still be here.
And we will still have National Security.
Stay in school and try to learn something.
2007-11-23 11:40:29 · answer #7 · answered by CFB 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not as we know it today. Everything we're familiar with and rely on depends on insanely cheap energy. Without oil, we might revert to something like we were in the mid 1800s but I suspect that's overly optimistic. Probably end up more like the 1100s.
2007-11-23 11:36:26 · answer #8 · answered by gunplumber_462 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Given that the US existed long before the first discovery of oil, I'd have to say yes.
2007-11-23 11:36:19 · answer #9 · answered by Steve 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Contrary to popular belief, fossil fuel oil isn't as important as people think it is.
But they'll keep forcing technology at you that makes you remain dependent on it. You can believe that.
As soon as it is completely depleted, you'll finally get to see what they have already developed.
2007-11-23 11:44:07 · answer #10 · answered by avail_skillz 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋