Before 1900, were we "addicted" to horses?
3000 years ago, were we "addicted" to walking?
I understand your point; but the analogy is inaccurate;
Unlike the examples you give, the worlds "oil" is non renewable, it's supply
is relatively fixed, demand is rising, and it will run out someday.
in 1900, there was no shortage or decreasing supply of horses;
3000 years ago there was no decreasing supply of walking. In each of those
situations, society and it's market place merely chose to change or move on
to a more desirable / efficient (or so they thought) form of transportation -
by choice not by necessity. The "change" was voluntary. Had some
epidemic severely decimated the horse population, our "addiction" to horses
would
have been dramatically demonstrated.
Steve Sadd
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