This is the first I've heard that Harris is anti oil. I have to agree we are nowhere near replacing oil. All food is grown, harvested and packaged with the help of oil and gas with 10 kJ of fossil fuel input for every 1 kJ calorific value to humans. When oil is no longer affordable due to depletion it may humanity's greatest crisis. The International Energy Agency says there will be a global oil glut by 2030. Somehow they see that 2 bn internal combustion engines will be switched off in the next few years. I expect as you fly in a battery powered plane Sydney-Perth over the wheatbelt looking down you will see hydrogen powered tractors spreading organic fertiliser.

This could be the start of a revival in Peak Oil discussions. Whether PO was 2005 or about now the question is when not if. If Harris knows how to replace oil before it runs out she should spell it out.

She is now ‘officially’ a Marxist according to the media. So, she will be against just about everything, except playing the race card. She is either brown or black, according to which group she is talking to. No policies whatsoever.

The sort that could win on DEI only. God help America and the West if she does win.

Any “ridding the world of oil” would be ridding the world of most things useful and vital to life as we know it now - including the people voting for such a moron, who rely on the government to look after them.

It seems those who make the real decisions in the Democrats might actually realise what a dill the woman is by providing her with Tim Waltz as running mate. Waltz, a real person with a real previous life and background, would actually run the show.

Does anyone really believe that a showpiece, first-woman-of-colour, strictly DEI President would actually be allowed to run America any more than Joe Biden in his demented state was? The woman is a Laughing Lunatic.

A society of homeless hobos awaits, you better believe it.
And the choice of a crude alternative living rough in the bush is a door that is closing fast as vast swathes of usable land is gifted to Native inhabitants to “manage” by locking out the commoners; this tsunami of undemocratic madness, don’t forget, includes sea claims including you favourite recreational beaches and access tracks right now in a phase of closing of access to public use.
Under this regime we as a society are doomed!

Absolutely correct. We all depend on critical products made from crude oil. Chemistry is the underlying science, not physics/energy. People who have no science often cannot understand this simple truth. One fact they might understand more readily is that only about 40% of fossil fuel usage is for generating electricity. That 40% is easily replaced by other generating technologies; Australia is working towards just that, though it has foolishly selected the wrong technologies. The other 60% will be harder to replace, much of it either impossible or barely feasible. The solution? Don't stop oil until replacements are available. And don't hold your breath waiting for that to happen.

So the author is proposing we keep burning oil and go back to a climate 4.5 Million years ago, when no humans or agriculture were about. Seems a risky idea, way more risky then abandoning fossil fuels, especially when many of the experts are suggesting thats a workd where civilization as we know it is impossible.

Therein lies the problem, the choice to keep doing what we're doing is literally suicidal. Humans were alive in the 1800s, no one was 4.5 Million years ago.