So, if at first I sounded completely anti-petrolium, this little tidbit should really make you wonder:
http://discover.com/issues/apr-06/features/anything-oil/?page=1
Don't get me wrong! It's not that I think oil is evil... I just think we really have to rethink our long-term use of resources and their direct influence on our tiny little Earth environment.
There is a place for oil... but what kind of oil? Deep-based petrolium is a shame to be wasting. This resource is non-renewable and extremely costly in the long-run to extract and use. How about letting it sit where it is and regulate it's use... why? This type of oil has too many applications to be simply burning it; plastic and chemical development should have first dibs on these limited reserves.
What we should be doing is converting our "garbage" into fuel, things such as:
- raw sewage
- automobile shredder residue
- pcb's
- mad cow infected livestock.
*These waste products are a toxic mess...
Just imagine a world powered by renewable resources including our prescious garbage and carbon waste streams.
Imagine electric vehicles and converted light oil from waste to fuel the rest... WOW, what a world that would be.
I hope my grandchildren get to experience this kind of world wide change....
...this paradigm shift of the energy industry!
*note: we can all dream, can't we?!?
