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westexas on December 26, 2008 - 12:26pm Permalink | Subthread | Comments top

http://www.energybulletin.net/node/47541
A simple explanation for oil prices

Instead of a desperate effort to keep our high consumption auto centric suburban way of life going, we need to be investing in things like rail transportation—especially electrified rail transportation, which can be powered by alternative energy sources like windpower. However, this would force us to recognize that we live in a finite world, with finite fossil fuel resource. This is a difficult idea to sell since the finite world concept violates most people's concept of how the world works--which is that we can have an infinite rate of increase in our consumption of a finite fossil fuel resource base.

We can only hope for an outbreak of rational thinking in the months and years ahead.

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ormondotvos on December 27, 2008 - 1:18am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Our greatest challenge is to stop manufacturing so many "needs" for more complex, ecologically-disruptive forms of transportation in the first place!

This is the only significant thing you've said. Why not talk about that instead?

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westexas on December 27, 2008 - 10:09am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Thanks for the compliment, but I think you have the wrong author.

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