Just gut, really. Got to talking with a good friend last night about oil. We went off on a tangent and started laughing when we decided to see what would happen if we presumed that the tales we'd been told about oil--how it came to exist as it does and where it does--was wrong. We both talk now and then about political stuff, economics, like that. I wondered what the 'world' would look like if oil was not scare and the supply of it not quite as finite as we suspect. Not quite sure where we ended up with it all, but it sure was interesting.

Laughed lots at the idea of the big conspiracy being that there was really so much damned oil we couldn't use it all for ten thousand years even if we tripled our consumption, and the whole thing with scarceness was just a ploy to keep prices up. It doesn't make sense to me that the brains of the planet haven't given time to alternate sourses of energy if they know that the supplies we have are going by-by at a fast rate. So, what gives? Just one of those what-if moments.