Berdo is correct, you ought to try looking at the correlation between oil and food production. Or did you think that Mexicans harvest all the corn and wheat by hand?
Yes it can be proven and it does have an LD50. Everything has an LD50, some things just haven't been tested as to what their LD50 is. Here is cannabis' LD50 apparently:
When I was stationed in Italy in the early 90's it was over $3 a gallon (I don't remember exactly how much) back then! They did liters, of course, and we had to buy ration books through the military so you were only paying like $1.25 a gallon. Cigarettes, alcohol, kerosene, were all ration items as well. If you didn't smoke or use your kerosene you still bought the books each month because you could sell them on the black market for a small fortune! This was, of course, totally illegal so if you were caught you could get into some serious trouble, but nearly everyone that I knew did it anyway.
my point their was that we are dependant on fossil fuels and as such use more energy each year than the sun produces...and we could not sustain ourselves without doing this...good luck with your fossil fuel free corn....hope the water your using comes from rain and not a well or city source because that would use energy and did you turn the soil with your bare hands? because even just a pick or shovel would take fuel to produce. what will you use to harvest your corn? how will you cook it? everything including you and your computer are using petro and without it we couldnt continue
everyone could not do this. their wouldnt be enough for everyone to live. .
About 5 billion people ago this would be correct, but without OIL the earth cannot support such a large population, period.
Totally agree. Petroleum has improved the quality of human life more than any one substance in the history of all of humanity. If we took petroleum and it's products away tomorrow, in about a month the majority of the civilized world would be dead! Sure there was a time when humans lived without it but humans only lived to be about 30 until the end of the 19th century. We've gotten soft. I often wonder how man lived without air conditioning and I grew up in a house without it! We survived but I couldn't imagine life without it these days.
I agree that we can and will replace fossil fuels with more sustainable means...........just not tomorrow. We should do it but the technology isn't far enough along to make it CHEAPER than fossil fuels at this point. Pessimism aside, this is what it's all about.........the almighty $$. It sucks but we won't make the switch until it becomes more economical to produce energy in a clean and sustainable manner. This day is fast approaching and I believe we (yes even us older fucks) will live to see it. Oil gets a bad rap and perhaps rightfully so, but the facts are it impacts all of us directly and indirectly with nearly every product we use. At this point it would be difficult to live completely off the grid with no attachment to petroleum and it's many products. We're definitely moving in that direction and we're being pushed a little harder right now because of the disaster in the gulf. We will get there but it's gonna take some time.y'all are just pessimists!
we can and will replace fossil fuels with sustainable technology.
it could even happen while i am still alive to see it.
it could happen tomorrow and although our style of life would change, we would not perish.
and also, i had no idea there were theories of what oil is composed of. so, i was quite wrong to assert myself there, my apologies. care to point me in the right direction where i could do some further reading on it, nodrama? or maybe even just spell it out for my edification? i am not opposed to exploring my own idiocy and improving it to a level of non-idiocy
It's supposedly seeping from cracks in the sea floor near the well. This may never end!
