Don_DicklePosting here first before no stupid questions. Have or has anyone developed synthetic oil? That does not rely on sucking the earth dry? And we can pretty much get rid of the oil prob?
A way to conceptualize petroleum is “we found a giant battery underground, and it was fully charged (by dinosaurs)”.
And if you think about it that way, it makes it easier to wrap your head around the reason most carbon capture (or other what if solutions, like synthetic oil) won’t work.
If we find a good source of energy to try and change that “battery”, we may as well use that energy directly instead of charging it.