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**hitaEtela** · 06-09-2010, 02:28 AM

Well, you seem to miss the point that it's actually you that are the real culprit here - it's your demand of oil that are the reason for this disaster.

This is not true. In order to participate in the modern world one must travel daily to work, source energy to heat and cool one's house, and [mainly in terms of oil consumption] buy food and a whole lot of crap that one can throw out and update in a year or so.

Oil and coal were the first cabs off the rank at the beginning of the industrial revolution, and so have market dominance, as well as massive economies of scale after centuries of investment in their discovery, extraction and distribution.

Thus for your average pleb the only choice they have in order to participate is to consume oil and coal, while these actively discourage the uptake of alternatives in order to protect the investments they've made described above.

Thus it is oil and coal companies who drive dependence on oil and coal.

06-09-2010, 02:28 AM	#23
hitaEtela Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 536 Senior Member	Well, you seem to miss the point that it's actually you that are the real culprit here - it's your demand of oil that are the reason for this disaster. This is not true. In order to participate in the modern world one must travel daily to work, source energy to heat and cool one's house, and [mainly in terms of oil consumption] buy food and a whole lot of crap that one can throw out and update in a year or so. Oil and coal were the first cabs off the rank at the beginning of the industrial revolution, and so have market dominance, as well as massive economies of scale after centuries of investment in their discovery, extraction and distribution. Thus for your average pleb the only choice they have in order to participate is to consume oil and coal, while these actively discourage the uptake of alternatives in order to protect the investments they've made described above. Thus it is oil and coal companies who drive dependence on oil and coal.
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