Title: Drive More
Tags: Oil plastic
Blog Entry: When the oil finally runs dry, and there is no more, what will happen? Actually I don’t know that answer, but what I am pretty sure of is, there will still be transportation, individual and public. Homes and offices will still be heated in winter and everything that today is made from plastic will be made from something else. Staying on that for a moment, almost everything made from plastic can be made from other materials, like glass, we all know the properties of glass, or silicone. Now silicone can have various properties and can look and feel like plastic. Then there’s aluminum, apparently one of the most plentiful, reusable, recyclable, metals on earth. Throw some wood into the equation and you quickly realize we don’t need plastic at all. Everything we use today can be made from, and be replaced by, one or more of those alternative, natural, environmentally friendly, materials. That takes care of plastics. Gas is a little more difficult, however, what I am sure of is that once the oil runs dry, there will be an alternative, and only then will an alternative become widely used. GM announced today it is making smaller cars, perhaps doing away with the Hummer, what a shame. What’s all this oil conservation about anyway? It’s not a forever resource, it’s going to run out, who’s in denial here? Really who? The oil companies and the car companies and the plastic companies, you know who. And why, because they want to extract as much money for as long as they can by charging more for something they have essentially begun rationing, by charging more! And all my little tree hugger friends are going along with it and enabling this plan by getting us to use less conserve more and keep oil in the picture for longer. It’s all working out beautifully for the oil producers and car companies. The real answer is to drive bigger cars, drive more and use up the oil as quickly as possible. Then, and only then, will alternatives become widely available and widely used, all processed with clean nuclear energy. Oil from the ground in the future will be as puzzling a piece of the jigsaw as whale blubber is, as a means for illuminating a room. Sure we could still use whale blubber for oil to light a lantern, and when there where as many whales as there where people it sort of made sense. One day in the future, using refined crude oil to power cars and make plastics will seem as outdated as using whale blubber to illuminate the nights. Invest in aluminum, invest in silicone, wait a minute, what is silicone made from? Sand, yes sand. Well now there’s an irony if ever there was one, where’s all the sand? Well a lot of it is right over the oil I’m proposing we use up as fast as possible. Well at least it keeps the middle east in the game so they can’t grumble, they will have to come up with another way of moving sand, although, oil pipes won’t work. Trucks perhaps? running on? Not oil! It gets complicated doesn’t it? Anyway, If you really want to make progress and contribute to the earth and the well being of the earth, buy a Hummer, or something bigger, get a second car and start driving, drive more and drive everywhere. Get enthusiastic about driving. Make a difference.
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