“China’s state-owned oil companies are likely to stop imports of refined products such as diesel and petrol next month after a nine-month buying spree that has left stockpiles overflowing, one of Asia’s largest refiners said…“The state refiners’ stockpiles are so full that they have been reselling the stuff,” FPCC said.”

I believe you are confusing the terms renewable and finite. In theory, everything is finite if you think of the Universe as a closed system, yet infinite based on one’s perspective.

BTW if you need some free lessons on anything, you just came to the right place.

You reveal that you either never took or completely forgot high school chemistry. “Break” is the term of art for the act of serving a chemical bond. Google “chemical reactions”.

By further employing tree “breakers” (your superb scientific term I suppose) or sea plankton one can even accelerate O’s rate of production. Oil on the other hand can not be replaced, recycled or recaptured. Once consumed it is gone forever (that is until the next punctuated global event that turns tropical forests into organic pools of the oily type).

As for “why bother with this post”, those demand forecasts have a pretty big influence on oil prices and production plans. And as the article said, their unreliability says that OPECs caution may not be posturing.

Perhaps an eponymous opinion will enlighten us as to the circumstances of your dark ages (to use an analogy to your tautology).

So people realize that the massive business (and decisions) surrounding one of the world’s most strategic of resources is reliant less upon the empirical and more upon the abstract, offered up by metaphysics and whatever obfuscatory data it occasionally lobs forth.

Dude, trees don’t make oxygen. My example was a tautology meant to expose dogma.