The Lahontan basin was once flooded, and it worked out just fine!.....Maybe we need to re-flood it. Heck, the hills around Oildale (Bakersfield's next door neighbor) are covered with shark's teeth that you can find just walking around. It was the bottom of the ocean at one time.
Well, if we want to use the fuel that God gave us, ....well, we are. It's just that He stored a lot of it in the middle east.