I find it funny how this country has been exporting more fossil fuels than it consumes since 2017!!!

Yet our reserves are half of what they were pre 2001!!!

It is all about greed and subsidies for the massive fossil fuels corporations!!!

India will only ever do what is good for India no matter what. They do not have morals or values when it comes to money, besides the problem is much deeper than dependency on oil.

There is no doubt that our continued use of fossil fuels represents a moral failure of epic proportions. And we cannot put the blame solely on moneyed elites, (though they do, in my opinion, deserve the lion's share of responsibility for the mess we're in). The sun delivers on average about one kilowatt of energy per square meter per day to Earth's surface. That is a HUGE amount of energy compared to what we need to run our economies. And the technologies needed to harvest that energy already exist. We only need to make the investments. But the fossil fuel industry, through it's lobbyists, think tanks, and venal politicians (including elected judges) have a stranglehold on our economy. They only care about immediately lining their pockets; whatever climate catastrophe faces their grandchildren is not their concern. What matters to them is that they have the biggest yacht in the bay, the most luxurious villa with the most spectacular view, the hottest mistress, the most valuable old master paintings, the most expensive wines, etc; fuck the planet.

Some day we may learn the secret of cold fusion until then I found this online not only are we the largest user of oil energy we produce most of it. We are not short of oil. When I pumped gas in the early 80s cost was 36 cents a gal, then Boston wouldn't allow any more oil tankers to unload because all the barrels were over full. My customers were shocked leaving. Boston by how many ships got stranded for weeks in the harbor waiting to up our prices. We went thru that make believe shortage to raise our price up to equal the other countries paying $3 a gal. It's a political snafu.
Does the US produce most of its own oil?
The United States is one of the largest crude oil producers
U.S. oil refineries obtain crude oil produced in the United States and in other countries. Different types of companies supply crude oil to the world market.
A coordinated, forward-looking energy policy over the last few decades would have targeted that issue through subsidies and incentives. That money has been paid out anyway: it wouldn’t have been hard to use it to make America truly energy independent. However, politicians, it seems, would rather keep a situation where periodic energy crises give them a cudgel with which to beat an incumbent.
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The biggest problems is the law...

The law could make oil a shared resource that no one can own..

Where's the oil mostly with the easiest access it's on the land

We could have 10 cent or less a gallon gas if it wasn't for the scum who think they deserve wealth from owning a piece of land with resources that belong to us all

The problems of electric cars will be worked out including the expensive batteries and disposal of them. What everyone misses is how to generate that electricity to charge the cars. It will not be done by wind or water power and I do support both of those. Are they going to burn coal to generate electricity? What problem is solved here?

Civilisations have always been based on harnessing energy. The ox, the horse, the slave, the female, ....
Man must dedicate himself to harnessing nuclear fusion.