Think gas is expensive now?

[KnottedYet]

what drives me nuts is how incredibly precious and versatile petroleum is as the raw material for the making of other products, and here we are BURNING so much of it.

It's like using beautiful silk as toilet paper.

[Susan126]

We the people have nothing to say about this. Sad. We are not a democracy but a facist country. Run not by the people (although the people are made to think they are running the show). Everything is dictated by big business and banks. They run the world! Right now they know oil will be depleted. It's not an unending supply. Soon it will be gone. The earth is not creating more oil and gas. Where will this leave them? So right now they are out for big profits so that they can buy into the next big energy fuel, whatever it may be. They want to be in control of the next big energy fuel. From oil to the next fuel. They are transitioning from oil mongers to whatever the next energy will be in the future. So their plan is to always be in control. Oil today tomorrow . . . .

Of course I am just one paranoid person.

Sorry for ranting.

[Trek420]

what drives me nuts is how incredibly precious and versatile petroleum is as the raw material for the making of other products, and here we are BURNING so much of it.

It's like using beautiful silk as toilet paper.

Right. Yes cars are evil, bad bad evil evil cars that hit us and little deer and bunnies and turtles and spew smog. And we're running out of oil no matter what we do. But hellooooo, plastic we waste so much.

Wouldn't it be great if we stop fighting each other, bring our boys home and send the Navy to pick up and recycle this:

http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Oce...and24feb04.htm

Much better thing for them to do.