[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 10/22/06 2:21:05 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > How is what MDixon saying contradicting the desire for alternative > >> modes of energy? >> >> >> > Try reading what he said. He is implying that without oil we would go > back to the horse and buggy era. Not so MacGurk. > > > > > Not at all Nooz. I was saying all of our current standard of living is based > on an economy and the technologies of the oil industries. Had we never had > that economy or those technologies we would have still been riding in horse > and > buggies to this day. Just as the horse and buggies were made obsolete > hopefully combustion engines will also be obsolete. I'm just not for > throwing them > out until we have something better to replace them with and currently, we > don't. You don't know that. There were inventors in the 19th century that got their inventions bought or shoved aside so the oligarchy could stay in power. There is no way of knowing what we might have if it had not been for their interference. For one thing many cities might actually have practical and efficient mass transit. But no, there was too much money in selling people cars that became obsolete in 10 years or less.
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