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Originally posted by Tuttle
So why do we rely on Fossil Fuels?
Because of over inflated defence budgets?
That could only happen if the people in control of those ridiculously large amounts of money, didn't want to stay in control of their money.
Originally posted by michael1983l
If only our nations could spend the sums they do on Science as they do Defence budgets, then maybe we would have developed technologically as a race so that we didn't actually need to fight over resources.
AND its usefulness of its by products, plastics, rubbers, waxes, CD's, car batteries, shoes, toys, soap the list is nearly endless, what we actualy do with crude oil is fantastic.
it would not be an energy crisis; we have energy covered. It would be a raw material crisis. Nearly everything in a modern consumer society is made out of, or relies upon, plastic.
Abiotic oil (theoretically) is the formation of oil naturally through processes deep in the Earth's crust and has been gaining a lot of attention lately, especially given the facts above. (Source)
Originally posted by Tuttle
reply to post by michael1983l
Of course you can, just not as efficiently, and thats the point, thats why we still use it, its efficient, so efficient in fact to use any other product in any other way would just be a waste of time and money.