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   Supercool said, about 1 year ago

   It drives me wild that these old cartoons are so relevant today. Have we gone nowhere?

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   Orgelspieler said, about 1 year ago

   Goin’ nowhere fast, dude.

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   dberanek said, about 1 year ago

   When they pump the last barrel of oil then they will worry about alternative fuels. Not before.

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   Orgelspieler said, about 1 year ago

   What I want to know is, when the time comes to switch to electric or hydrogen, what the heck are we going to do with all the old gas cars? They won’t be any use for parts and we won’t have any fuel for them. That will be one big-ass recycling effort.

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   ana_demeter said, about 1 year ago

   Roger, etc: Duh- have you not heard of “planned obsoletion”?

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   aerwalt said, about 1 year ago

   Wish I could remember the reference,but someone theorized that the earth was still making oil. Organic ocean debris gradually subducted under the tectonic plates and cooked in the magma.

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   Skulker said, about 1 year ago

   dberanek says:
   When they pump the last barrel of oil then they will worry about alternative fuels. Not before.
    
   That’s not what is so scary. What is scary is that oil is the raw material of so much of our other non-fuel products - think plastic, fertilizers, medicines, construction, etc. We might someday find an alternative source of energy but raw materials??

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   Skulker said, about 1 year ago

   aerwaltPro says:
   Wish I could remember the reference,but someone theorized that the earth was still making oil. Organic ocean debris gradually subducted under the tectonic plates and cooked in the magma.
    
   Not really. The earth may still be creating oil but not by subduction. Heating any organic matter to the temperatures of magma would break all of the carbon chains and would no longer be raw material for oil. The other processes that result in oil proceed at a pace thousands of times slower than what we are using up the oil.

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   bloomfan said, about 1 year ago

   skulker, there are already a few products, such as refillable water filtering bottles, out there made from a plastic made from corn starch. Unfortunately, at this point they are expensive “specialty” items. As for fertilizers and medicines, we need to again turn to plant and/or animal-based products and go back to smaller, organic farms rather than huge “factory farms”. Finally, if you Google “green construction materials” you’ll see that steps are being taken there, as well. It all just needs to be more accepted and supported by a public that’s afraid of leaving its established comfort zone, as well as by big business, of course.