Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

Hey Coup... do you get where I'm coming from on this? People lived for thousands of years without petroleum fueled vehicles. They were doing just fine. Then someone invented the car and mass produced it for profit. If there were never a 'supply', there never would have been a demand. All those cars in those pics are the result of corporate profit motives. Not because some dirt farmer in Kentucky sat on his horse and said one day out of the blue, "hmmm... I need to have a machine that burns oil!"