SealXo wrote:
My friend not being homeless > saving the planet asap.
Wrong. Your friend, and even millions like him don't mean shit when we start talking about billions. The world, the environment and a sustainable existent is much more important then a few people who can't afford food.
SealXo wrote:
Why the fuck do people deserve to suffer for no reason? So the government can spend more money they don't have on alt fuels? Bullshit. Do it while keeping prices low.
OPEC has no obligation to any but themselves, they can charge what they want and how much they want to sell and the rest of the world is going to have to pay until we find an alternative fuel source. As I said in my previous post we have know about alternative fuels for hundreds of years and electric power was even invented before the combustion engine. It is and always has been the western worlds complacency, short sighted politics and the need for a quick buck which has drowned any real research into alternatives. And in a democratic country, it comes solely down to the people who voted (or don't), it is up to the people to express what they want and use their votes to influence government policy, and as I bet you nor your friend have given a shit about oil prices or alternative fuel sources (even after the 70 oil crisis) the reason they are suffering now comes straight back to them and their inaction.
Now we are in this mess the government can spend what little money it has available to subsidies fuel prices so that your friend can afford college (which should be free anyway), which would create a nice deficit in the budget, send more money overseas, increase the countries liabilities and stimulate other peoples economies but it would give you all some short term relief but get you know where in the long run when the next oil crisis happens (and it will). Or they could bite the bullet accept some people will have to do it tough for a while, but put that money into subsidising research and development of alternative fuel sources, thereby creating new jobs in the economy which creates tax revenues, removing the reliance on oil in the future, saves the environment, creates a whole new industry which will be worth trillions of dollars as the entire world will wont in on it sooner or later. There is only one logical choice and I'm sorry but for the good of the country and the world your friend is going to have to suffer.
SealXo wrote:
If you think personal transportation with alt fuels is years off, I'd like to know the estimate for a cargo tanker or plane or 18 wheelers being mainstream with alt fuels is.
It's thinking like this which has kept the alternative fuels from being researched and put in place decades ago, it's about time people stopped thinking with their heart and only ever look to the short term and consider the longer term effects of their actions and make a logical decision.
Last edited by DrunkFace (2008-11-30 19:29:35)
