[jyl]

Why do you think that the choice is binary - either "all oil" or "no oil", with no in-between? Obviously there is a whole range of possible choices.

Old rhetorical trick, to pretend the only alternative to the desired choice is a doomsday scenario. Not many people fall for it.

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Are't we all at a mercy of the oil beast ?

I believe you meant to say this:

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Aren't we all at the mercy of a high standard of living, a comfortable, fruitful life with freedom to go where we please when we please, to live where we choose and to enjoy things that even kings could not dream of 120 years ago?

We are at the mercy of being spoiled with the truly blessed life that oil provides us, and the only reason we feel chained to it is because nothing else can come close to providing as much benefit for so little cost.

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The alternative is to go back to living in the stone age in caves, rubbing sticks together to keep from freezing to death, which any one of us is free to do any time we want. All we have to do is give up every one of those wonderous, great things that oil provides.

Who's first?