Let’s park up all the environmental downsides of oil usage for the moment. Because despite all of oil’s sins, most of humanity depends on it for everything from the clothes we wear to the means we employ to get about. Even a lot of the food we eat and many of the modern medicines that help keep so many of us well are in some way linked to the petrochemical industry. But as we know, crude oil is a finite resource. Not that anyone would ever believe it when observing the accelerating rate at which it’s being pumped out of the ground. Oil is becoming an increasingly precious commodity. Worryingly, as it becomes more and more complicated to source and extract, it gains an ever greater capacity to hold our modern civilization to ransom. All this might sound a bit melodramatic. But the plain, simple truth is our modern […]