That's only true if you assume oil is really from fossils.
Most EROEI calculations are nothing more than someone's opinion given numbers. Ethanol is a good case in point. Depending whose study you read it is either highly efficient or massvely inefficient. Show me two studies from different authors whose numbers agree and I might start to take them more seriously.
A mix of odd points. The best current source of ethanol is from waste, which is complementary rather than competitive with food production. It's true about tar sands and water, though. Alberta will run out of water long before it runs out of oil.
You can already get or mod plug-in hybrids with range of over 100km before they burn a drop of gas. Around here, those plug-ins are getting all their energy from hydro and natual gas turbines. If I had one of those I'd be using less than 50L of gas a month.
What, all of them? With 40% efficient solar power you could run the whole US energy grid off a 10 mile square patch of Arizona desert. Based on current trends in solar cell efficiency that's about 10 years off.
Yeah, but how many trains go door to door?
Lots of tech articles on the site I linked if you look for them. Many academics, oil industry insiders, etc writing for that site and very detailed technical discussions.