uselesslegs
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« Reply #15 on: November 27, 2011, 05:41:29 pm » |
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The reason we're grasping at straws, instead of getting serious with alternative energies as an offset (and hopefully eventually our saving grace when the wells literally run dry) is money. Money has ALWAYS been the motivator for stunting any real movements towards progress of REAL independence.
Our economy, how we operate, is built entirely around the functionality that oil provides. There will never be (in this country) a gradual push towards alternatives that offset an ever depleting oil supply. As I've said before, while money has such a stranglehold over every aspect of decision making...we'll wait until the very last second before we HAVE to transition...and it will be ugly, very ugly. It won't be on our watch, but it will be on our children and their grand children's watch. How sad that the few will force so many to live in such a chaotic and frantic environment...for the cash they're making today.
There are times when the common good of the now AND future should be a serious consideration over the profit of the moment. But we don't operate like that. Never have, never will.
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