[icebraining]

By the way, the EROEI of fossil fuel is terrible. Do you know how much energy was required to turn all that organic matter into oil? A single gallon of gas requires 98 tons of plants to grow, then be buried, and then pressured and heated until they become oil, then finally be dug out and refined.

[jonasvp]

Totally. This was a one-time gift of fifty million years of sunshine and we burned it all off over a time span of about 300 years.