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14 comments on Beginnings of UK “Oil Age”
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Hello Chris,
Fascinating old article! I wonder if those opposed back then deliberately pointed out the circular irony of the direct linkage of blood-for-oil with this oil-powered battleship fighting for oil imports to keep the British Royal Navy fighting for ever more imports...ad infinitum. Evidently, two World Wars were not enough to get our global leaders to consider an alternative path. Will the true reality of Peakoil change this detritovore dynamic?
Bob Shaw in Phx,Az Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?
There's a good account of this era, and a lot more details re: the decisions (and decision-makers behind them), in the opening chapters of Robert K. Massie's "Dreadnought". It's been a few years since I read it, but as I recall, even though the decision was ultimately Churchill's, a lot of the impetus for the switch from (domestic) coal to (foeign) oil came from the visionary Admiral Fisher.