And *I* wish that brainwashed boneheads like you would be relics of the last millennium. You're operating under the fallacious ass-u-mption that petroleum products are the only way to power home HVAC, freight transportation systems, and personal vehicles.

We should be embarking upon a mass campaign to electrify all of the main railroads in the US for long distance freight transportation, set up special electrified lanes on freeways for trucks, charging stations every 50 miles for cars on all major highways, mandatory replacement of oil and gas furnaces with electric heat-pump systems in homes, energy-saving technology (things as simple as motion-sensing or timer lights in apartment and hotel lobbies).

Then start cranking out the nuclear (and invest in thorium and/or fusion research), wind, solar, and hydroelectric capacity as if our lives depended on it. We'd still need some petroleum for chemical processes and plastics production, but the quantity would be much smaller. THAT's real engineering, not attempting to suck a poison that we should have got rid of 40 years ago out of an increasingly reluctant planet. Plus, if the mode of energy transport is primarily electric, it makes for a very modular economy, in the sense that future power generation technologies can easily be added and outdated ones removed.

But hey, you're welcome to your conservative s**theadery, that the way we've done things over the past 100 years will always be the right way.

PS - looks like I struck a nerve, since you had to resort to ad-hominem