60 years?! You must be joking!

I saw a commercial by the Oil and Gas Industry this morning. It was so warm and fuzzy telling people not to worry about energy in the future because we have enough petroleum energy to last us 60 years!

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Come on! 60 years? That is no kind of foresight! We've known that our fossil fuels are running out for over 100 years, and no one has done anything to reduce our dependence on them. How are 60 more years going to help anyone? Of course, they are pushing to drill off-shore and in Alaska. If they put as much money into researching new energy options as they did buying ad time, we wouldn't be panicking the way we are now.

Oh yeah, and no one who lives in a city needs a huge Denali/Escalade/Suburban to haul around their children. Most people aren't exactly hauling horses or doing heavy farm work that requires that kind of truck.