I am still waiting for the answer to this. Maybe you can find out from the oil experts for me.

If we drill more oil and burn it, we are changing the mass of the planet. True or false.

If you answered true to the first question, please answer the following.
How much mass can we afford to burn before we affect the gravitational pull of our sun?

The laws governing the conservation of mass and energy apply here. Even when you’re “burning” oil, you’re not really destroying anything, you are just converting it. All of the mass and energy are still here. They are just in different forms and in the atmosphere rather than in the ground. Besides, the amount of mass and energy that we are talking about here are insubstantial compared with the masses and gravitational forces involved in the sun-earth system.

We are not going to be floating away from the sun any time soon. Nothing that we are currently capable of doing could possibly have anywhere near that kind of catastrophic effect over the short term.

Christian: Thanks for your input!
However, I do not agree with you.
E = MC2 so mass and energy are on the opposite sides of the equation.
Energy cannot be created nor destroyed but mass goes ‘poof’ because it is converted back into energy.

On earth we interchange mass with weight because they are so close.
When I go on a diet I lose mass because it is used as energy.
So when we burn the oil from our earth we are losing mass as we convert it back into energy!!

My question still stands.

As for floating away anytime soon, I would expect the angle of our axis and the way we spin daily to be affected first.