HAPPYDAN wrote on 07/30/17 at 07:55:24:Dino oil is a limited commodity. It is going to run out. They don't make it any more. Legislation is unnecessary. Time will dictate the need for change. In the interim, forward thinking entities are planning for the future (Tesla?). Maybe not in my lifetime, but my grandkids may well know a time when gasoline powered cars are museum exhibits only.
Did you know that we keep finding brand new, massive deposits of oil underground all the time?
Did you know that some of the oldest Pennsylvania oil fields have actually come up with some moderate amounts of oil again? New oil from the original pumped dry oil fields ......
We really don't know how "oil" comes about, the theory that oil is old dinosaurs and super rotted plant life is mostly just pure theory. If it were true, all coal mines would be dripping with oil, and they are actually dry except for a little ground water.
Now that we are making large amounts of Bio Diesel commercially, we understand that pressure degrading plant materials makes certain chains of stuff that ARE NOT FOUND IN A LOT OF RAW CRUDE OIL SOURCES. We do find these chains found in oils made from the bacterias that are common to many porous rock strata.
Oil may be the result of cubic miles of LIFE that normally naturally lives inside of porous rocks .....