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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
And you really expect an environmentally friendly alternative to pop up? Its just not going to happen. Electric cars..sounds good but most of the electricity in the States is made by coal plants. Of course there is nuclear but you have the possiblity for horrible results there too, just like you do with oil. We might be better off finding an alternative for plastics that don't use oil but I can't think of one resource that doesn't damange the environment. Even solar, the solar panels require plastics and other petroleum based products..
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We have the technology to, in large part, replace coal/gas plants. we just need to get very serious about implementing it. A couple little wind farms here, a couple little solar plants there ain't gonna cut it.
We will of course never be able to do without oil all together. But there are thousands of ways that we can cut consumption drastically. We just have to get very serious about it.