IS mankind beginning to war with each other for oil? Fuel injection-man's deadly addiction.

[Union Yes]

Hah, some will say, where have I been for the past few decades. To those I'd say

If you think we're warring now, WAIT.

Ween us off this fucking meth.

Oil is powerful enough to turn religions against their own tenets.
Like..
Thou shalt not KILL.


Religions are turning against each other for this addictive finite, depleting resource. The world is running out of this resource. There's still oil, but it's sources are becoming extremely dangerous, difficult, and ultra-expensive to extract.

Oil is our god.

Good thing none of our deep water oil rigs are leaking/gushing. Imagine what an oil slick in the GULF might look like. Or an oil slick wandering around the southern tip of Florida's white sand beaches, destroying the environment of nations like Cuba or possibly Jamaica, or US territory Puerto Rico. Or wandering up the eastern seaboard. Good thing our oil rigs are safe.
:sarcasm:

I wonder if the everglades are threatened?

Can it become any clearer that it is time to send humanity to drug treatment?
Our addiction-OIL

Is a replaceable resource really worth killing for?

'Replaceable'? Replace oil with alternate, cleaner, greener energy. Ween ourselves off of buying and funding and making some of planet Earth's most evil people super wealthy. Those evil people; Exxon-Mobil, BP, Phillips, Halliburton, etc. In turn those evil bastards use that super-wealth to fund buying the very politicians that write our energy policy.

But how do we replace it? (hah, been the topic of a bajillion OP's here on DU)
Think growing our fuel. And/or switching to electric.

Or a suggestion guaranteed to induce an allergic reaction here in America...
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I'm channeling Marx here
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Communist suggestion below
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Public Transportation.

We will never find the answer to our future energy needs by including oil in our current and future energy policy.

We'll never break our addiction to oil until we break-up the very corporations that own our government and write our energy policy- Big Oil.
The first step in a new energy policy is to use trust-busting federal authority and break up the very corporations that are writing our energy policy.

We will never have a new direction in energy policy until the corrupting forces that write said policy are no longer part of the process of policymaking. Meaning, that as long as 'Big Oil' stays BIG, forget breaking our addiction.

Can the need for a new energy policy be any greater? Can the need to write said policy, free of corporate corruption, free from big oil execs writing said policy, be any greater?

I've only talked war and oil slicks up to this point. Still haven't said a word about oil-induced climate change. That topic is worthy of an OP of it's own. Few sources release more Carbon when burnt than oil.

Our addiction to black sludge meth will only grow worse as this finite resource continues to deplete. Mankind is growing more violent daily in man's never-waning need for a fuel injection.

The violence, the warpiggin, the global division, the hate, will grow worse daily. All for oil.

We are warring and have been for decades over this resource. War for oil will never end and only grow worse unless we immediately push to end this meth-like addiction.

Rewind back to the 1930's or so. Big-oil/Big-Auto execs bought city councils and mayors all across America for a very 'good' reason. To kill public transit policy. Instead, big oil preferred our cities build roads instead of rail. Cars instead of trains. Cars require gasoline. Trucks require diesel.

An 18 wheeler fully loaded up to 80,000lbs gross vehicle weight gets 6-7 miles per gallon burning diesel fuel. There are millions of 18 wheelers on America's roads every day. 1 train can carry hundreds of 18 wheelers.

To keep us addicted to a 'cheap' energy source-oil, our government heavily subsidizes the oil industry.
Government cash to big oil keeps gasoline/diesel 'cheap' at the pump.

We're already spending billions of taxpayer cash to subsidize this addiction. Instead divert that funding to new energy research and developement. Time to grow our fuel. Bring back the family farmer with a new crop. Renewable fuel.(err, the 'grass' that fuel is made from) Hemp could be our new fuel source. The most efficient plant known. Fast growing, little fertilizer needed to grow it. Tends to immediatly outgrow weeds and needs little to no pesticide.

END 'CHEAP' GAS!

Man's need for a fuel injection is a horrid energy policy.

Addicts tend to grow dangerous when denied an injection.

Yes, we are warring for oil, and it will only get worse.

Can it be any clearer?

An oil-free future is our only answer.

[Baalath]

1. I don't see public trans as communist

not that I am disagreeing with your ideas. I am just not sure people will make that jump

[Javaman]

2. "mankind" has been fighting over oil since the first world war. nt