Why petrol is important to us

Because big business has control over everything, and big business won’t let go of something that makes it billions of dollars everyday… the internal combustion engine has been obsolete for years. It’s all about $$$

The one thing missing from the responses sent to this question is the other uses of petroleum products. Namely, “Plastic”. If you consider how many materials we depend on use petroleum derived products, then you would see that oil is not only necessary to make things run, it is also necessary for building the objects that we use daily. Oil is used it the manufacturing of shoes, clothing, furniture, containers (for food or just about any type of container), high tech devices, life-saving medical devices, and thousands upon thousands of other things.

So “why we use petrol” is less important than “how we use petrol”.

in addition to all of the above- there are the multitude of products derived from petroleum- some of the plastics I have worked with are derived from crude oil, just look for the words petroleum distilates in different products that we use. we are very heavily reliant on petroleum. and it is going to take a lot of brilliant scientists to change that fact. there are plastics being made out of corn- so the technology is going in that direction- but at this point to produce more corn- it will take more fuel.

lol, I havent heard gas being petrol in forever (knew you couldnt be american) well like you said… transportation… and it’s not just your personal car transportation… everything is run by fuel… (trucks that take food and other products from place to place, planes, ships, etc…) so when fuel prices go up, to compensate, everyone has to up all other prices too… without it, everything stops… without transport there’s no food, people cant get to work, and trade stops… the economy relies on it to survive…