I’d hate to have it come down to a panic thing. Those people who say no more oil don’t realize what other products come from oil. Out of a barrel of oil you get just two gallons of gasoline. Everything from oil is taken out and what’s left you pave roads with it. Maybe the technology isn’t around right now to produce super batteries for cars and trucks that allow them to go four hundred miles on a ten minute or less charge. But perhaps in the future there will be.
That’s my position. We should’t be propagandized into supporting technological development, but we shouldn’t be avoiding it either, just because there’s no real need for it.
Perhaps. But in the meantime, we need to be aggressively using our own resources to produce energy so that we can use the profits to INVENT these things. Giving the money to hostile countries so that they can destroy our way of life is hardly the right approach. (And I'm including US government taxes in the definition of hostile countries.)