One of the ironies of this whole system is we're discussing what to do about a system that we don't understand. We don't even know what oil is. We don't know where oil comes from. I mean, literally, it's still a source of debate what this black river of stuff is and where it comes from. The best assumption, and one of the best guesses in this stuff, is that this stuff comes
整个体系中具有讽刺意味的一点是， 我们在讨论对一个我们所不了解的体系要做点什么。 我们甚至都不知道石油到底是什么。 我们不知道石油是从哪里来的。 事实上，这至今都是有争议的， 这流动着的黑色物质到底是什么，是从哪里 来的。最靠谱的假说和猜测， 这种物质来自于这些东西。