Geoff Miller wrote:
> > ..or we could choose some more efficient cars with fewer
> > cylinders and HP's !
>
> Screw that. I didn't study hard, work hard, and claw my way up
> the economic food chain ...
Too common, people thinking, "I worked hard so I can do whatever I want,
screw all the rest of the planet." Very good job!
> ...in order to be satisfied with a glorified golf cart. I'll give up my
> big S-class Mercedes when they pry my cold, dead hands off the steering
> wheel.
Technology exists that would allow that S-Class to be more fuel
efficient /and/ have more power. You don't want that, because you just
like burning gas for the sake of depriving others of it? Me, I'm trying
to figure out how I might be able to bolt a generator to my engine, to
leach off the crank when I'm slowing down and help turn it when I'm
under load. Haven't given it a lot of thought yet, but it could also
get me better economy and better power.
> Enough of this bullshit. I say we take the goddam oil fields.
Yep, rape the earth! Steal what we can't have! Other countries should
play nice but America should just do whatever it wants! Fuck yeah!
> Not to plunder, as Japan would've done in the Dutch East Indies
> at the start of WWII, but to administer as fair and benevolent
> custodians with assured supplies to all.
Ah right, like how we started embargoing Iraq when Saddam started
selling oil to European countries in currencies other than the US
dollar? Like how we won't listen to Hugo Chavez despite him offering to
sell us oil for far less than OPEC? Yeah.
Fair and benevolent administrators indeed. Ask the Okinawans how fair
and benevolent we've been in their lands...
> (Unless someone pisses us off, of course. It'd be a hoot and a half for
> *America* to be> able to use oil as a weapon for once. The threat of
> petroleum embargoes, *and* nukes! Talk about having the best of all
> possible worlds...)
You've not really paid a lot of attention to global politics, have you?
> If producion can't keep up with demand, then we'll drill more wells and
> build more refineries...
You mean how like our government is telling us there's a fuel shortage,
how the oil companies are charging us more than ever (and making record
profits, to boot, all subsidized by your income taxes! Yeah, America!),
and OPEC is saying, "what are you talking about? We've got plenty of
oil."
> and start a quasi-Manhattan Project of oil field exploration. Oh, and
> stiff penalties for artificial shortages. Enough of this "two-thirds of
> refineries 'coincidentally' going down for maintenance at the same time"
> crap.
With every sentence you're sounding like some privileged college-age
kid. Is that the case? (You might take a look at these issues at home,
for what it's worth.)
-tom!
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