CloroxCowboy

1,238 Billion Barrels of Oil Reserves: Is This an Oil Price Bubble?

I agree with the sentiment that weaning ourselves off oil (globally if possible, but mandatory in the US) is by far the sanest course of action. The sooner we start on that course, the faster this painful episode will be over, and woe to us all if we haven't made great strides in clean renewable energy by 2030. The world economy is addicted to oil as if it were heroin. We all sound like a bunch of drug addicts these days, "I know there's more out there, we just have to find it...one more hit man".

1,238 Billion Barrels of Oil Reserves: Is This an Oil Price Bubble?

I'm depressed that humans as a species have not managed to evolve beyond this. Will people in the future laugh when they remember us in the early 21st century fighting over liquified dinosaur remains? Where is my flying car already?