[quote=Halo]
Well, agreed. I never argued otherwise. As the current status quo goes, oil is our only option. We rely on it, so we need to damn well make sure it's reliable, 'cause we're fucked without oil. My whole point was to acknowledge that, and then to go further and say that we should try to develop alternate sources, to move beyond the "necessary evils" involved with our dependence on oil. I think it's pretty hard to argue that it's better to fuel ourselves on oil than clean energy sources, were that option available - so we need to invest to make that option available.
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Oil is never going to die out. We're never going to make plastics out of hydro-electricity or the wind. Calling the oil industry a necessary evil is unnecessarily pessimistic. It's the attitude that causes objection to things like Keystone XL.