Finite Supply vs Exponential Growth
So there have been a lot of prayer at the pump stories knocking around lately, and I've been making a canned comment a lot, so I'll just record that here for posterity now:
We're just fucked, and stuff is probably going to look a lot different in 20 years. But I'll tell you the way out of the oil crisis:
What we all need to do is hibernate for 100 million years and then start drilling again. We'll have to hope that the bonobos haven't evolved enough to use up all of our oil in the mean time. Actually, we should probably exterminate all of the class mamalia (excepting us) while we're at it just in case. If we do this and couple it with some birth control, then there should be enough oil for even our great-grandchildren.
We can call it Hibernation And Guided Mass Extinction, or HAGME.
We're just fucked, and stuff is probably going to look a lot different in 20 years. But I'll tell you the way out of the oil crisis:
What we all need to do is hibernate for 100 million years and then start drilling again. We'll have to hope that the bonobos haven't evolved enough to use up all of our oil in the mean time. Actually, we should probably exterminate all of the class mamalia (excepting us) while we're at it just in case. If we do this and couple it with some birth control, then there should be enough oil for even our great-grandchildren.
We can call it Hibernation And Guided Mass Extinction, or HAGME.