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reply posted on 3-7-2005 @ 06:22 PM by mrwupy
I have trouble imagining a world without oil. Just for a moment though i'll give it a shot. In a world without oil:

Cheap products made at slave wages by some poor bastard in china would suddenly be gone from the shelves of my local Wal-Mart. Without oil they couldn't ship them here and even if they did the trucks couldn't deliver them without the fuel for their engines.

Foreign wars would no longer be an option since we couldn't send troops by plane or boat and keep them supplied in a true fighting fashion. Without the modern supply lines the modern army would quickly perish.

The skies above would no longer be filled with planes as people rushed from place to place in order to keep the global economy on track. It wouldn't matter though, since the global economy would be just as dead as the planes with no fuel.

Fireplaces would not only make a serious comeback, they would be standard in every dwelling. I suppose it would rekindle the meaning of family as everyone huddled close to the hearth to try and keep from freezing to death.

Bicycles would be much more in demand since a bad ride is a heck of allot better than a good walk.

Yes, I can see a world without oil, and I see it as a generally better place then the one we have now. We'd still have electricity from coal and wind and nuclear power so we'd still have the internet. We just wouldn't have the mobility that makes us such terrible neighbors to each other.

Thats my two nickels on it anyway. Love and light,

Wupy


reply posted on 13-7-2005 @ 07:22 PM by Tidepooler
It is possible to reduce or even eliminate our dependence on oil. We need people to be willing to participate in grass roots efforts like this one in order for it to work. I think that if everyone, and yes, that means everyone (even YOU, who are reading this post) made an honest effort to try, we'd all find that it was easier than we thought.

The problem is, Americans are lazy. We could lead the way, but instead, we want all the problems to be solved for us, while we sit back and pay someone to do all the hard work. Why are people driving around in Hummers? It's ridiculous! I hope the oil prices keep going up so that people in America will stop being so pig-headed as to flaunt their wealth by driving the biggest car imagineable even though they don't even need it, while people are starving in the world!

Hmphf!
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