Those are all good arguments, UVDan
I don't owe anything to OIL (meaning the oil corporations) or any other big business; but there just isn't any alternative available right now. There several ideas around that could help alleviate petroleum usage in certain areas, maybe in most areas. They just are not available, in large scale, at the moment. It does not matter why, for the moment, they just aren't there.

Yes, the oil companies milk the situation for billions of $$$ every year (Though I am not opposed in any way to a corporation that makes money). Yes, I believe that they funnel bribe money into the representative bodies to keep it that way.
None of that is questionable, IMO. The question that is never answered is:
What to replace it with, in the short term, to keep the fragile food and commerce networks that keep the world alive and going, from collapsing completely?
It is always, "smash the oil companies", "stop the oil companies". But there is never a solution offered as to what to do about filling the void. Other question that troubles me deeply is:
Who is to be put in charge of it?
What are the new overlords going to do with it?
Is there any garuantee that it will better off in a socialized government arrangement than it is now?

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If I seemed testy in earlier posts, it is because I do not much appreciate attempts to silence opionions that may not be in line with somebody else's. I try to afford anybody the right to their own opinion as they see fit to express them. I'd appreciate the ability to express my own opinons from time to time as well. That doesn't seem to be in the cards now-a-days; but still...

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