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Recent Oil Rally: Another Crowded Trade

You all may remember that in our high school science class we were taught the earth began with an atmosphere full of carbon dioxide, the green house gas. Over many eons, the vegetation on the earth converted them into hydrocarbons and oxygen and the atmosphere became almost all oxygen and nitrogen and it left only a trace of carbon dioxide. Where did all those carbon or carbon dioxide go? I guess they are all there under our foot in the forms of oil, coal, and other carbon-containing materials.
If what the scientists tell us is true, there is so much oil and coal around us it is almost inexhaustible. In fact it is not there are not enough oil and coal to go around instead we cannot afford to use up all those oil and coal. If we do burn them up, it would put our atmosphere back to its primordial carbon dioxide. However, before we even began to burn up some of them, as we are doing now, there would be enough green house gas to cause significant climate changes to make us human beings extinct like the dinosaurs did some million years ago.
Therefore, as we start to see such catastrophic climate changes coming on, we will have to simply stop burning oil and coal. We have to survive on alternate energy sources. There is no other choice.