on 10/12/04 10:23 PM, Keith Addison at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It's news to you that the industrialised countries, and particularly > the US, behave like heroin addicts when it comes to fossil fuels? So > many people here and elsewhere have said that. Stand between them and > their oil and they'll kill you. It's Lesson 1 in biofuels and > renewables that trying to substitute alternatives for the West's > current energy use and future growth is a non-starter. It has to > change. It's not sustainable in any way, and it's grossly > inequitable, at the foundation of much or most of the injustice in > today's world. It's anti-life. But that's what this guy wants.
I haven't read the book, but I'm going through several others that hve a somewhat "apocalyptic" bent (Heinberg's books, Lester Brown's "Plan B", and Klare's new "Blood and Oil"). In fairness to this guy, who certainly hasn't thought it thru like the illustrious authors just named, he may not so much WANT to replace fossil fuels gallon for gallon with something else, as BELIEVE that the American leaders will want that, and so will rape and pillage the rest of the world until they extract the "very last drop" of oil for their own personal use. Now THAT might mean the end of civilization, however unnecessary... -K _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
