So then, what is the proper format? I know not of a better way in which to present my ideas, so do enlighten me.
You have a point about my previous statement, but that clause is incomplete. It should have said:
We should stop using fossil fuels as fuel, as soon as we can afford to do so.
I apologize for my post error. Yet you never have seemed to have your own point:
Are you saying that we will never run out of oil due to it essentially magically pouring out of the ground?
And that the biomass from plankton and swamps never contributed to the formation of oil wells?
What I see in your argument is a false dichotomy:
Since we have evidence pointing to cause A, it cannot be cause B.
Although that may seem like logic, look closely and you will notice that there is no evidence pointing to how A and B are mutually exclusive. And the way you are describing oil formation is only going to give us a few hundred more years. In the end, we will run out of oil if we keep on burning it.
And as you said, my computer is made from oil products, and I do not dispute it. What I am pointing out, is that we are wasting a precious resource that we could use for so many other things. What we are doing is essentially taking gold and burning it.
This is my point. This is what I am trying to say. Using fossil fuels as material is fine, but why burn something that you can:
a.) recycle
and
b.) puts out a ton of toxic gas
The strategy you are pointing out seems to be a lose-lose, in which we have no oil in the end (there can't be an unlimited supply) and we have choked ourselves with toxic gas. What you are envisioning simply isn't sustainable.
-Penguin
P.S. I can't make this any better than it is. If the debate is on the format of my posts, simply say so.
i've not seen any problems with your posts. you get your thoughts across very well.
to my eye, you just seem fairly well brainwashed(not meant as an insult)
like someone else said.....it's produced by the process of the earth doing what she does. abiatic" i think it was called?
try to think of your body. it makes blood and bone, right? i might be using a bad analogy, but sometimes i have trouble getting my thoughts out of my head.(still at 47)
if you read in one of those links, when they found oil in the dried up wells, they tested it. it was significantly younger than the oil they had previously gotten from that well. and it was filling from the bottom.
the worst that may happen, is that we could use it faster than it can be regenerated.
but, not only our oil....but natural gas and coal come from the same process. coal burns much dirtier than anything.
in the long run, some form of hydrogen would(in my opinion) be the best alternative to burning oil.
electricity will still burn oil, unless we have other ways of generating electricity...
