On 24 May 2014 at 7:37, Electric Blue auto convertions via EV wrote: > Im getting sick and tired of hearing people blaming " big oil" for all the > worlds problems.
Our modern society is built on and dependent on petroleum. We have sophisticated plastics. We have air travel. We have space travel. It's quite possible that none of that would have happened without petroleum. We also have cancer and other diseases related to chemicals from petroleum and pollution from petroleum. We have oil spills killing plants and animals that people depend on for survival. It's quite possible that none of THAT would have happened without petroleum. I know, if we want the benefits, we have to accept some harm. However, a rational society would say, "Let's regulate this. Let's try to maintain the benefits we get from oil, but also mitigate the harm with sensible legislative control of these oil companies." Some of that actually did happen 40-50 years ago here in the US, Europe, and some parts of Asia. Then the oil companies, like others, discovered that modest investments in political systems paid big dividends in profit. > Im making money just sitting on my ass. Not really. You worked for the money that you loaned them by buying stock, no? However, you should realize that your investment is working against EVs. That's your own business you're undermining! If someday those big oil companies decide to buy laws restricting or banning conversion of ICEVs to EVs, you'd join those unemployed Golf Coast fishermen in looking for other work. BP, Shell, Exxon, and all the rest don't care. We're nothing to them. Meanwhile, the stock dividends you get depend on how well your companies evade and defeat the few laws that protect your health and your job. Some folks would call that tainted money. There are good reasons that some of us want to see more legal restrictions on the damage oil companies can do to people and the world around them. All that said, the EVDL is NOT the place to debate this issue. However, when we talk about EVs, it's inevitable that sometimes we're going to talk about the immense political and economic power that oil companies have long used to keep EVs down. So, you're sick and tired of it. I'm sorry to hear that. Maybe you should set up an email filter so you don't see those posts. As my mom used to say to my dad when he said he was sick and tired of something, "Then you'd better see a doctor and get some sleep." ;-) David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
