Can the people of America really change a whole way of life and give up Petroleum ...?

The answer is no. How many people are going to give up their cell phones and computers. Petroleum products are found in a vast majority of the things that are involved in our everyday life. Medicines and surgical instruments are made with petroleum products. The main thing that people are ignoring is the fact that oil is a natural product of this planet, it results from the decomposition of plants and animals, therefore it is in fact natural. And also there are bacteria that survive by eating oil that is continually leaking from the ocean floor and other places. I can take you to a creek that by the end of the summer you can skim oil off the top of the water, and there is not an oil well to found for miles, it simple rises to the top of the water naturally from the creek bed. How many people are going to stop driving their cars and start to either walk or ride a horse, because you need grease to lubricate the wheels of any wagon or anything that has wheels.