You betcha!

This article started out as a question of being able to sustainably use fossil fuels in light of the impact of conversion to non-fossil fuel energy would have if the world decided to simply dump fossil fuels one day.

All those people working in fossil fuels don't have to be out of jobs. In fact, there could be a lot more people working in the industry and on those oil fields if mankind decided to use fossil fuels intelligently.

What is wrong with fossil fuels is the pollution created in their use. We extract oil from below the surface of the planet, and that's it. We pull it out, modify it, change it, burn it, convert it to something else, and leave it out of the ground – most of which goes into our atmosphere as the fossil fuels are merely oxidized (burned.)

But an intelligent way to use fossil fuels is certainly possible.

What do we use fossil fuels for? Plastics, and fuel. Mostly fuel. Plastics are a side effect of having to do something with the heavy components which cannot be easily oxidized. So we mostly use oil for it's energy.

So why do we need to extract oil? Why not simply extract the energy and leave everything else underground? That seems like quite an intelligent thing to do.

The concept is simple: make power plants that utilize fossil fuels and locate the power plants at the oil fields, at the source. So, instead of transporting all that oil and fuel around the world and the dangers it entails; why not run power lines instead of pipelines and send absolutely pure, clean, “green” energy from the sources of oil to the people who need it's energy?

But here's the clincher: There are a lot of oil wells, with a lot of oil in them, far more than we could ever use the energy from today. But instead of using that “free” energy to fuel our society and it's wanton destruction of our planet even further, why don't we take advantage of the opportunity and actually use fossil fuels to gather up the pollutants created by our past fossil fuel use, and put those pollutants back in the ground along with the waste products now created by this proposed sustainable use of fossil fuels.

Why not?

Because there is no motivation to fix the problems society has created, because society is run by greedy rich people who don't care about the planet, the future, or you.

Maybe we should have someone else in charge for a change?

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