Quote Originally Posted by SwordsMaster
Plus, there's shale... Anyhow, depite being way past the industrial revolution, almost half the world's energy still comes from coal... So I don't think oil is going anywhere fast.

However, imagine covering the whole of Greenland with windmills. We could generate energy for most of the world.
The hippies wouldn't approve, you're destroying an unspoiled wasteland with windmills.