GM and Chysler Bankruptcies

[kandrathe]

But there are still plenty of unknown on unknowns that could crop up (not sure if there is a known unknown involved in oil like with aluminum where it was know that if you could extract it more readily from bauxite that you would be able to get a lot of it, but it was unknown how to do that).

Oil, considering its uses for complex hydrocarbons is really wasted as fuel. We would be better off devoting "A Trillion Dollars A Year" towards clean fission, or push towards fusion and perfect energy storage devices. In the end, the bauxite of oil, is energy in its purest form. In a way, by pumping the stored potential of fossil fuels from the earth, and releasing them back into the ecosystem as heat and gases, we are undoing the process of eons of photosynthesis. Conservation of energy suggests, that it was always either geothermal or solar energy captured by plants and animals trapped under silt. If we don't want to mess up the environment by releasing gases, wastes, and energy, then we need to consider the natural (or otherwise) systems in place for maintaining an equilibrium.


Edit: Pete more clearly says what I was thinking below...