Journal 15

The video reflected the opposite viewpoint as the article. I was more on the side of the video considering the way that we burn through this "non renewable resource" then it makes sense that we would hit peak oil. Also, when it was predicted in the 70's that we would hit peak oil in 15 years, it happened. So why would predictions be so widely criticized now that the world may hit peak oil? It isn't a big surprise now that some of the lesser developed nations are beginning to develop their oil retraction abilities. Most of the time it is happening at the peoples expense of the country because developed nations are trying to find ways to get oil from other countries. It was really crazy to see how so many wars have been based out of oil trade problems or consumption problems. To see that Darfur was a problem stemming from oil and the difference in cultures was unbelievable. Also to see how the US has totally taken over the oil fields in the middle east and has had plans drawn around those oil fields from the beginning is pretty sickening.
This is why I wrote in the last article that I really didn't care about whether or not we were going to hit peak oil. I can let the people worry about that who can actually do something about it. I honestly have no control over whether or not we use more oil or are able to find more oil. All I want is this world, not country but world, to become less dependent on oil alltogether. I cannot stand what the guy said about our country and having a God that, " I don't care who you worship, Budda, Jesus Christ, Allah, you really worship oil". I can't stand it because it is so true in a sense. All of these religions call for living out your daily lives in a way that glorifies your God. Well every single day we are dependant on oil and everything we do usually comes down to some sort of oil product. Most people even rely more on these products then they do on a higher being. It really is something that just gets to me knowing that oil is this product that runs a country. Just like our country runs on materialism this world runs on consumption of oil in one way or another. There could be so much more peace in this world if we could learn to lead lives that weren't so focused on consuming. I hope we hit peak oil man. It's gonna suck. But I hope it happens. I sound like an idiot for saying that but it really just gets me that heated that I do not even want to think about it.
How great would it be if the United States could start the world off in using cleaner technologies. We always have to be the hero in every situation whether are motives are good or not we love getting in other peoples business. How about we use our incredible country full of innovative personalities and creative people and use it to lead the way in getting the world off the reliance of oil. Like we said in class, let's focus on using oil for the things that really need it. We have the ingenuity and the power to come up with ways to use green technology to make products that don't necessarily need oil use that green technology.