shempmcgurk wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [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. >> >> > > > ...and if it's the oil companies who provide these new, more > efficient, cleaner alternatives: MORE POWER TO THEM! > > And it will be in the oil companies' interest that they start > defining themselves as "energy companies" and not just oil > companies. This is the mistake that the railroads made at the turn > of the century: they saw themselves not just as transport companies > but as railroad companies and, as such, lost out to long-haul > trucking, cars, and airplanes. I'm all for breaking up the oil companies and maybe even nationalizing them. Seems to be if you think oil is so important then it makes sense to make it part of the "commons."
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