As for shooting the oil CEO, sure we dont pay them then. and realy I just want to do it, never said it was going to fix the oil issue.
If nothing is found then so be it, like I said, look and watch for it. If we do find some, then more power to us. Simply not finding anything yet, does not mean you dont watch it.
If you cant just say , Oil is Finite , then live in your fairlytail land. You can debate how much there is, you can not with half a brain suggest that there is unlimited oil in the earth. Maybe I can just start thinking my gas tank in my car is unlimited as well and will come true. Also I guess you think if there is oil, you just simply stick something in the ground and you get it. There are different types of oil, there some oil is close to the surface and easy to get at, some is very tricky and cost alot more to drill for. The middle east is blessed with good oil thats easy to get at, that does not mean we are.
and again , please please tell me where I said don't drill for oil? Wait ...no in fact I think I actually said we could drill for oil. I mean when I look at my words, its almost like I said if they wish to drill , then we can look at there plans and decided if we feel it meets the standards we want for safety, Environmental impact, and other factors.
Ok I will make it very simple for you. If people drive cars that use less gas....there is less Demand for gas.( given same population) I know , it was hard, I had to do a lot of thinking on that one. And if your issue is that the outo companies dont follow it, well here is a great idea...Make them. Drug dealers dont follow the law. Its novel I know, but oddly when you make rules and people dont follow them, you make them, not just say get rid of the rule then.
Oil is a Free Market? what planet is that on? Since when was OPEC a Free market? Oil is a few companies who bought up the others, and OPEC...Its not a free market.
So why could it work here? because we would do it better and smarter. You know a lot of things don't work when tried by others, and then someone does it better and smarter, and it works. Exxon and all them can do what they do, maybe the government just says we will do it ourselves as well, and compete with them, and not need to worry about record profits.
If people stopped doing evrything new becuse someone else tried it and it did not work, we would all be cavemen still.