[quote=justme]
2. CO2 emissions is directly proportional to oil consumption. High oil consumption causes future energy deficits.[/quote]
Again, energy will not be an issue in 30 years, unless you assume that for some reason all technological progress stops today. In fact, I’m guessing that we never actually run out of natural oil. The remainder will stay underground while synthetics/alternative energy sources are used exclusively. Unless we blow ourselves up first, that day is inevitable.
[quote]There are people who deny both 1 and 2. Category 1 are know as climate-change deniers. I guess we’ll have to come up with a name for category 2. Perhaps 1st-law-of-thermodynamics deniers? Or Immaculate oil conceptionists?[/quote]
I think you need another category. Those who are well aware of the process of climate change and the causes, and who are all for limiting emissions, but who don’t feel guilty for exhaling or accelerating fast. Vehicles produce a small fraction of the total carbon dioxide we generate, and our progress in cleaner emissions and alternative energy will only continue. You worry too much, and your efforts would probably be better spent fighting the other CO2 sources which haven’t been as strictly regulated as vehicles have, like industrial processes and deforestation.
