Why we still use oil? Is there any scientific reason or

>>8684238
>Trillions upon trillions of dollars invested and millions of jobs created
Yeah, I'm gonna say capitalism is at the root of it.

For example: It's no coincidence that almost 100% of Republicans are skeptics or deniers -- just follow the money

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/totals.php?ind=E01++

Come on OP it's easy to see oil is the sweetest thing we ever found on earth.

>>8684247
>Yeah, I'm gonna say capitalism is at the root of it.
What kind of magic would a socialist country use?

>>8684266
>commerce ceases to exist in a "socialist" country
First of all, there's no one-size-fits-all socialist system. And I'm not anti-capitalism, I'm just pointing out that money and greed are the main reasons why we haven't made greater efforts to switch to cleaner, renewable energy sources.

>>8684238
that's why : youtu.be/VOMWzjrRiBg

most dense energy source

millions of years of algae

there's alot of it my dude, 40 bucks a barrel is not that bad for those joules

even ignoring the fuel parts of oil. oil provides too many useful hydrocarbons to ever stop being used.

There's a lot of it, it's cheap and it stores a lot of energy. When you burn it, you get a lot of energy and also that smoky stuff that eventually become stars.

>>8684291
cleaner, renewable energy sources are all significantly less efficient than oil and would make society objectively poorer as a whole.

>>8684238
As chemical feedstock we're a long way from replacing it.
As an energy source it benefits massively from being well established - can you imagine trying to get stations that sell vast quantities of a toxic, volatile, combustible liquid set up every few miles or so now - very energy dense and easy to handle. It requires complex machinery to extract the stored energy but we are used to that - again, first mover advantage.

>>8684238

We would have switched to nuclear energy decades ago, but the Chernobyl accident ruined the public's perception of nuclear energy.