[McGavin999]

LOL, go ahead and watch the US "suddenly" discover an alternate source of power. Then the oil money will be next to worthless as the world moves to a new energy source.

People forget how dependent the world was on rubber until WWII made it impossible to get rubber. We just invented nylon. Seen any rubber tires lately?

Putin is not that dumb. He knows what would happen, and he'd be sitting on a reserve of worthless oil.

[kitkat]

****People forget how dependent the world was on rubber until WWII made it impossible to get rubber. We just invented nylon. Seen any rubber tires lately?*****

Actually, nylon was invented by DuPont in 1938, but you're right that we put it to use to replace rubber in as many ways as possible.

It also replaced silk from Japan during WWII.

And we CAN replace oil.

[steve50]

He knows what would happen, and he'd be sitting on a reserve of worthless oil.

And the added expense would destroy us. If it was cost effective we would be doing it now. The other cost effecvtive option is biodiesel, and the oil companies aren't going to allow that, they have little control over farmers.

[america-rules]

"LOL, go ahead and watch the US "suddenly" discover an alternate source of power. Then the oil money will be next to worthless as the world moves to a new energy source."

About time someone else brought this up !

I've been telling people this for two years now. Oil will only be for third world countries in 5 years.