If we wanted to, if oil was so precious, we could synthesize it from other substances. This isn't the case like with rare elements. And with most of those, eve

If we wanted to, if oil was so precious, we could synthesize it from other substances. This isn't the case like with rare elements. And with most of those, even, we can recycle them indefinitely (we'll never run out of platinum). Helium literally floats away to where we can never get it again.