Pretty soon we may be able to just walk down to the nearest lake, stream, or river and scoop up enough oil for our own personal needs.  We could even build a community oil refinery sort of like when the used to have community grain mills.  Just scoop it up, bring it on down, and walk away with your gasoline.  But of course that won’t happen because we wouldn’t want an oil refinery in our back yard.  As long as we get what we want we shouldn’t have to care about how it’s produced.

Well it looks like those days of ignorant bliss are only a distant memory now. The oil industry, responding to our demands, has been supplying us with all the oil we could ever want and doing anything to make sure we are never disappointed at the pump.  But of course we are now we are learning the real cost of all that cheap oil.

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