text: With a world wide over supply of oil pushing prices lower, do we need more oil? Where solar electric production has surpassed that of coal, where fewer cars are being bought, fewer miles driven, do we really need more oil? With the evidence of burning based fuels being the major contributor to global climate change, do we really need more oil? Wouldn't it be better to invest the money into the technology that will power the 21st century and not that of the 19th. Conservation issues aside, this is bet on the past, not the future.