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Moreover fuel does not account for all the petroleum used. Petroleum
is the single most important feedstock for organic chemicals like
virtually all synthetic fabrics, plastics and solvents.

Your arithmetic is quite sobering.

IMHO, the only thing that will solve the oil shortage problem is economics.

$10/gal gasoline would bring lots of new technology out of the wood
work, but as long as the fossil fuel industry is in control of US energy
policy and their stooge occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Av, there will be no
meaningful solutions brought forward.

Lew