Despite the replies, the real answer is that it’s not as simple as “stopping drilling”.

The fossil fuel industry isn’t just oil and fuel…it’s quite literally everything.

• The vulkanized rubber in the tires of your electric vehicle…yep…petroleum based.

• The hard plastic that forms the interior panels, and the side walls, the steering wheel and literally everything else made of plastic on the planet? You guessed it…petroleum based.

• The lubricants that keep the chains chaining, the gears gearing, the whirligigs whirling and the moving parts moving…once again…petroleum based.

• Much of the cosmetics industry, as well as chapsticks, lotions, sunscreens, etc… Yep…all have at least some petroleum based ingredients.

Are you starting to get it?

Hippies can complain all they want, and I ABSOLUTELY agree that we need to be moving away from the petroleum industry faster. But it’s not a matter of switching to electric cars because EVERY part of modern life is from the roads we drive on to the keyboard I’m typing this one, is in some way or another making use of a petroleum based product.

We have a long hard road before that’s not the case anymore.