I keep trying to tell him this, but I feel like I am

Solar and wind are good and all, but it is going to take some time for people to afford to put them on every home as he says. In the mean time we need oil, and if we are going to be using oil for some time to come, it might as well be our oil, and not Someone else's.

Besides Solar and Wind will not replace the the oil or oil by products used in literally hundreds of products we use.

here is just a small list of some of those products. This is by far not all of them.

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Do You Know Which Products Are Made Out Of Oil? | The Good Human

Wind and Solar is not going to replace the Oil, and Oil by products used in these products now is it.