Bingowings said:

I think you have it the other way around.

Oil is expensive and ancient technology (the Romans had machines powered by burning oil) being perpetuated to enslave the the majority.

At the moment petrol cars are only needed for rural communities cut off from public transport. If you gave back the amount of money people spend on their cars and oil based power generation there wouldn't be a financial crisis.

And as technology improves all petrol fueled cars should be replaced with vehicles that can be powered by domestic renewable generators.

The majority of plastics should be replaced or recycled.

This is all being held back by a small mega-rich clique of backwards thinking protectionists.

The obsession with maintaining hold on this polluting, expensive and finite resource and selling the arms needed to secure it is the root of most of the problems in the world at the moment.

Ah, if only we were all urbanites, there wouldn't be so many bad turbanites.

There are problems with oil. As there are with minerals, metals, textiles, grains, meat, the internet, etc. I don't understand the unique obsession with oil.