>"So given that oil is unique, precious and without serious
> substitutes, and given that we use it as wastefully as water - which
> will be the subject of another letter, oil must surely be a limitless
> and renewable resource, more or less falling from the sky, or at least
> welling up munificently underground, waiting to burst forth in black
> plumes and fill our lives and SUVs with boundless and endless vigour.

>
> How is oil any more unique then water? While we may current know of
> no way to create oil, that does not mean we wont figure it out in the
> future. That is sort of like the ancients saying, "lets not use this
> iron ore we found in the ground because we might use it all up".
>
> While we should certainly be looking into ways to replace oil as a
> fuel source, it would be wastefull not to use it while we have it. As
> far as I know our using it verses not using it does not affect the
> total supply of oil (i.e. by not using it the source does not
> replenish).

> On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:49:39 -0800, donquijote1954 wrote:

>> So, don't be a hypocrite and get your ass off that SUV because it runs
>> on Evolution itself. You belong on that donkey that Jesus rode. Or at
>> least go and ride a bike.

>
> Nothing like a hypocrite calling everyone else a hypocrite.  Your computer
> is most likely burning coal or oil; even if hydropower the machines that
> built the dam burned oil.  Quit driving your car, turn out your lights,
> become Amish.

> On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 06:23:49 -0800 (PST), donquijote1954
>
> hotmail.com> wrote:

>>The American psyche is something that the rest of the world doesn't
>>understand. It's a sort of vaudeville with SUVs and guns. A farse with
>>yellow ribbons...

>
> Shortly after I emigrated there, a couple of colleagues were
> discussing Noah's Ark. I thought they were joking and laughed. They
> were mortally offended.
>
> This is the difference between the US psyche and everywhere else.

> I thought petroleum, and most hydrocarbons, was formerly primarily
> plant matter that had been trapped in sediment and covered by oceans,
> algae & stuff being the liquid petroleum and trees & stuff ending up
> as coal... but this discounts the whole abiogenic petroleum theory.
>
> I guess I'm not really sure where petroleum comes from, I suspect that
> it had to be deposited in the sediment way long before there were such
> things as dinosaurs (obviously the folks at Sinclair Oil co
> disagree). I just could live with myself if I believed that I was
> burning Fred's cute little Dino every time I lit the furnace.
>
> I'm not sure I follow the assertion of hypocrisy either. I think that
> people that don't believe that living things evolve believe that the
> world has always been like it is now and don't really subscribe to
> either the biogenic or abiogenic theory on the origin of petroleum...
> God created it on the eighth day but it was not deemed noteworthy at
> the time. But then I guess I'm a really bad representative of their
> ideas & beliefs.
> ...

> On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:30:58 +0000, Uncle Vic wrote:
>

>>> Seems like a non-sequitur. I drive an "UV" (not much "S" to it,
>>> just "UV") because it goes in deep snow just fine and it holds a lot
>>> of stuff. Disbelieving evolution does not increase or decrease the
>>> performance of my "UV".
>>>
>>>

>>
>> That's because you think it's from God, and it's part of God's plan
>> that you have a "UV" to make use of His Great Gift of oil. Funny,
>> thought, that you have to use it to defeat His Great Gift of snow.

>
> Nothing strange about it at all.

>god put the oil in the earth for us to use.
>God put the animal bones there to test our faith.
>Unless god says there is global warming, there isn't.

> god put the oil in the earth for us to use.
> God put the animal bones there to test our faith.
> Unless god says there is global warming, there isn't.