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Originally Posted by catzmeow
Some posts make it incredibly difficult for me to follow the rules here. Like this one, for instance.
The ignorance displayed in this particular post is astounding. Aside from the lack of understanding of the issues leading up to the war as evidenced by the post, it's just utter bollocks.
Do you drive a car? Eat food? Live in a house? Use a computer? Guess what? Your lifestyle is maintained by the American reliance on petroleum. At some point, we may succeed in weaning ourselves off of oil, but until then, you, and everything about your life, relies on big oil to make it happen. The food you eat is probably grown elsewhere and shipped to you by truck, using gasoline. It's raised using tractors that run on gasoline. The toys you play with daily were also shipped to you using trucks. Without oil, your life as you know it ceases to exist.
This post stinks to high heaven of naivite, coupled with ultimate hypocrisy. Your hands are as dirty as anyone else's just by virtue of driving on the highway or eating dinner tonight.
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I'm sorry but this post reeks of so much ignorance. Is it true that the world has become dependent of oil? Yes. Is the only way to obtain the oil is by way of force and warfare? No. Oil is big money and wherever there is big money there is corruption and dirty politics. The world has become so dependent on oil because of the oil industy's stranglehold and control of other resources. They buy out patents and ideas and shelve them and they use their money influence to quash and distort progressive innovations. ie: Electric Cars, Solar Power, bio-fuels...etc. And to state the life would cease to exist without oil is baffling. With all the uses you mentioned that oil is a part of or is a product of you forgot the two biggest ones. Plastics and polyesters. In fact most of the oil is turned into these materials.
Can we live without these products? Of course we can, we did already for thousands of years. It would be difficult to completely take out all of our lifestyle choices but we can certainly reduce them. Take initiative and don't buy products that contain plastics or clothes with polyesters. Stop driving large gas guzzling vehicles when you have no need for them. Look at alternative renewable resources that help cut down on your dependency of oil related products.