There is only one situation where we will not use fossil fuels and petroleum products, when there isn't any more to use.

Your life and comfort level is brought to you 100% by fossil fuels and petroleum products, 100%.

So unless you are ready and willing to go back to growing your own food, living in caves and protecting it with pointed sticks, deal with it and accept it.

Want to pick an environmental issue that is of far greater potential for human destruction, why are we not talking about all the nuclear waste we keep generating and burying in big holes in the ground that will never go away.

Ok great, so we stop burning coal, so to keep up the power grid we have to cover the entire nations landscape with solar panels and windmill farms.

Then the environmentalists have a whole new wave of spiders, birds and fish they have to look after, and they asked for no more fossil fuels.

None of your "Green" solutions can be made without fossil fuel and petroleum products.

It may be the end of man fighting over these resources, but it will never go away until there is no more.

Think about how much toxic waste you are installing in and around the world and how much pollution is created manufacturing them, that does not seem to concern you, long as the bank account is green.

These threads are as pointless as the political ones.