The Race For Oil Is Drying Us Out
And it’s doing it in both the metaphorical and literal sense…As we are continuously patrolling the globe in search for oil to turn into combustible fuels, we are also feeding the monolithic Goliath known as climate change. Not only are we depleting this ever-so-important resource, but in doing so, we’re feeding the global warming phenomenon, thus literally drying us out with climate temperature increases, and the depletion of our natural resources.
We could even look at the dangerous extraction process of this resource, invasive foreign policies, and wars that have occurred over oil as drying us out of people as well. The reason this situation that seems so perplexing is that we have the technology to avoid the unnecessary consumption and extensive depletion of oil sitting right in front of us: battery power. Battery powered vehicles are not a new technology (Green-Tech: “Recycling” Electric Vehicles, Green-Tech: Debunking the Electric Vehicle) but are finally starting to be produced on a relatively large scale; however not large enough. We have the ability to create fleets of electric vehicles, yet each car manufacturer only tends to produce one or two models of vehicle that are 100% battery powered.
Call us crazy, but wouldn’t it be easier on the environment, the planet, and the people who risk their lives for the extraction and acquisition of oil, if we did just that? It seems that despite the obvious warning signs that our planet is about to be in big doo-doo (Watch 131 Years of Global Warming in 26 Seconds) and shows no signs of future improvement, that nobody really wants to execute the solution. We’re not saying battery power would eliminate the need for oil – hopefully one day it could – we’re saying that we could save a lot of lives, future, and present, as well as preventing the environmental havoc that oil extraction invokes, and hopefully slowing down the global warming process, despite the fact that it may already be too late to do so.
Are there other alternatives that could end this oil-crazy world? Are we being too hasty to think that this whole process is preventable? What are other methods that could yield the same results we’re talking about? Let us know your thoughts on Twitter.
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