Could you live without Oil?

Knowing that...


you don't collect your own water naturally,


don't grow your own food naturally,


need medication...


enjoy a night out in town,


enjoy listening to your Ipods,


drive your vehicle to work,


drive your recreational vehicles,


take your family to Disney Land,


that you have a job,


that you have television


Cellphone,


can travel to different parts of the world,


Wear the nice Clothes on your back,





all products of energy....





Let's be honest....Oil is like water to us...we need it for survival.





For those who claim going to ';War for Oil is Evil';....





Is there point would you go to war for oil knowing that your life is pretty much dependent on it? Would you compromise your self righteous beliefs and admit in the back of your mind...';that we need to go to war';...that you want someone like George Bush to make the hard decision so you don't have to feel guilty about it?





Think hard. Think real hard.Could you live without Oil?
Without oil or a substitute energy source, our society would not survive. Only the lucky and strongest amongst us would.Could you live without Oil?
we don't depend on oil, rich arrogant narcissists benefiting from the oil industry want to keep this economy stimulated even though it's what caused Sept.11, because AL queada is hostile for our ';need'; of their oil.





there's other sources of energy, calm down.


besides oil is not indispensible.


the oil industry will perish in 40.5 yrs.
Even with the need for oil, we didn't need to go to war with Iraq over it. There is plenty of oil in the other middle eastern countries. The war was about revenge over the lack of respect Iraq showed George HW Bush, Georgie Porgie's papa.
Yes, we could physically live without oil...it is desirable..?? No! Well I guess not all people could trully live without it, but right now I could because I am healthy enough.
no besides gas oil provides us with so much more including plastic. we need an alternative.
I don't think so. We need oil





Especially Olive Oil.
Absolutely not! Oil is a God-given natural resource (or the product of evolution, depending on your beliefs) and requires very little refining or transport costs. It is an earth product that belongs to all of the people, not to be usurped by a few. That a few could claim this almost limitless natural product ,necessary for even basic life, as their own ';product'; (didn't require Einstein to invent this one) just shows the ill will of the greedy. To even consider not having oil or to be held hostage for jacked-up prices (not even to mention killing over it) is a stage of abuse that ill befits our destiny over earths' products. Open the pumps...the earth won't implode.
No. I would not go to war over oil. And we did not go to war over oil, we went to war (partly) over keeping cheap oil flowing. But it did not work, oil is more expensive than ever.





North America has all the Oil it needs. (most in 'unconventional' reserves expensive to extract) At the current prices, it is even cost effective to develop some of the unconventional reserves (one reason Canada has become a chief exporter).





So no, going to war over cheap oil is not in our interest as it had the predictable result of making oil more expensive. But mobilizing like a war, to develop more efficient technology and energy alternatives makes perfect sense. Science and technology will solve these problems in a sustainable way, and not cost any lives.
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Is there point would you go to war for oil knowing that your life is pretty much dependent on it? Would you compromise your self righteous beliefs and admit in the back of your mind...';that we need to go to war';...that you want someone like George Bush to make the hard decision so you don't have to feel guilty about it?





Think hard. Think real hard.


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I don't submit that the Iraqi War was about Oil.


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We dont need to go to war for oil. We can certainly reduce our dependence on foriegn oil. There are other forms of energy and we can gradually reduce our dependency of oil, and by the way, that is the only way the price of oil will come down and stay down.





Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11, the 19 terrorists were from Saudi Arabia and microstates of Saudi Arabia. Why don't we go to war with them?
Pelosi's latest move is to halt development of new energy resources through drilling oil in Alaska and the outer continental shelf. She's engineered this through 13 obscuring maneuvers since 2005, which keep America's energy resources in the ground, while handing out subsidies to favored ';alternative energy'; programs, which she has cleverly packaged as resolving the energy shortage. Winners: environmental and alternative-energy lobbies. Losers: all of us, who must now pay more for energy and food.





I'll take oil refined by the oil giants to fill my tank before I take food out of the mouths of people who have it priced out of reach 鈥?thanks to our pure, progressive, politically correct do-gooders. They're the ones who made it possible for greedy Big Ag corporate giants to make a few insignificant gallons of gas and tons of money.





Let's stop this crime against humanity now. The food crisis is already here.
First to answer your question...yes i can live without oil.....we did it for thousands of years...do i want to....HEL L no! We a all spoiled.


Ok but the edit...your an idiot. How is the war in Iraq holding thoses responsible for 9/11 accountable for there actions. The so called ';link'; between al-quaida and Iraq has been proven false 1000x over. Dont be fooled by the treasonous liars in the white house. Iraq is about oil.


Dick Chaney and the oil rich Bushes want us to burn gas and waste so they can get richer. Why else in a RECESSIon would gas and food prices be going UP?


Well as for consumption of oil all we need to do is cut back... stop using as much. walk some places...conserve..thats it.





Oh, went you stick your nose that far up bushs @ss, all your gonna see is butt , its making you blind to the reality of the world around you.
You may wish to view human population like microbes on a petri dish. if you supply an energy source (food), the number of individuals increase exponentially (like our population growth after the advent of oil recovery).





The numbers keep growing, artificially supported by this energy source, until, the source is exhausted and the population immediately crashes.





This WILL happen to humans if we don't start figuring out how to utilize different energy sources as well as making legitimate attempts to decrease our highly dependent global population.