I think you're wrong about that, Strick. It's really only a very small percentage of people who are benefitting from a petroleum dependent economy. An economy that is based on sustainable and ethically responsible energy, goods, and services would benefit far more people. It's the people in the bottom 90 percent (the ones currently with the lowest standard of living) who will benefit. You're forgetting that these are the people who are paying all of the hidden costs of the petroleum based economy. Including the hidden cost of their sons and daughters getting killed in places like Iraq.

You're a Christian, right? Do you think you'll go to heaven if you make decisions that result in other people losing their lives just so you can have a higher standard of living? What was it somebody said about a camel passing through the eye of a needle?