Reply #3: Like I said...

[NNadir]

...I have no patience whatsoever for the notion that oil is so essential to life that we "...have to do something..."

For what purpose?

There are billions of people living on this planet right now who have very little access to oil. Have they all died?

The technology and policy for banning oil is pretty straight forward, not easy - it may involve fewer trips to the country club - but nevertheless technologically straight forward.

I personally find the Oil Drum/Kunstler/Peak Oil scare sheets to be responsible for the shit we're seeing right now.

I have long favored a fast rise in the price of oil to reflect its external costs. If we had to pay these external costs, we'd have been done with oil years ago. We can now add to these external costs, the complete destruction of an important inland sea.