Crude oil isn’t going away soon

Without crude oil, here are several conundrums that 8 billion on this planet would need to adjust to:

• There would be no products that are based on oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil! Such as tires, asphalt, refrigerators, televisions, air conditioners, X-Ray machines, life-saving medical equipment, and the other 6,000 products that did not exist 200 years ago that make our lives better, and just about everything we take to be modern, such as cell phones.
• The elimination of all of today's militaries and space programs as the world reverts to when civilization existed without the products and fuels from oil, i.e., pre-1800.
• The elimination of the tents and sleeping bags utilized by the growing homeless population, as tents and sleeping bags are just a few of the products made from petrochemicals manufactured from crude oil.
• Eliminate the need for airports that now accommodate more than 25,000 commercial aircraft and more than 14,000 military aircraft.
• Eliminate the more than 50,000 merchant ships, that are moving products around the world to support the 8 billion on this planet that are made with the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil!
• Eliminate the needs for major shipping ports that accommodate military, cruise, and merchant ships.

Wealthier countries continue their pursuit of wind and solar generated electricity. believing that electricity will reduce crude oil usage, the wealthier countries renewables dream would mean sacrificing an estimated 6,000 useful products that rely on the petrochemicals manufactured from crude oil – products that range from tires and asphalt for highways to fertilizers, cosmetics, synthetic rubber, medicines and medical devices, cleaning products, and so many more.

Without fuels and without products now based on crude oil, we would be unable to operate the international and military airports that now accommodate a large number of the more than 25,000 commercial aircraft and a large number of the more than 14,000 military aircraft, as well as many of the more than50,000 merchant ships.

Just as food is fuel (no pun intended) for our bodies, crude oil is food for our way of life. It provides the products we need for prosperous lives. No sane person would cut off their main food supply without lining up for a new food supply, first unless they wanted to starve to death.

So, before we jump out of the airplane without a parachute, and revert to the pre-1800's, let's identify the back-up "source" that can continue to support the making of more than 6,000 products and the various fuels of our materialistic society that are now based on crude oil.