Re: [freenet-chat] Capitalism & Stuff (not even vaguely Re: Installing a bare-bones Linux system is reallyhard!)

[Tavin Cole <tavin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:53:59PM +0200, Marcel Popescu wrote:
> From: "Tavin Cole" <tavin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> > > That means that if tomorrow someone would manage to create a nuclear source
> of
> > > power for cars, oil would become almost worthless.
> >
> > How do you reconcile your assurance with the certain fact that energy sources
> > superior to fossil oil already exist?  The oil & gas created from waste in
> your
> > own country is superior to fossil oil.  Alcohol fuels are, arguably, superior
> > to gasoline, with the right engine technologies.
> 
> The only problem is that you're again using "superior" in the absurd sense of "I
> like it better", instead of "preferred by more people". If you actually KNOW how
> to make a more efficient engine using other fuels, go ahead and do it. Sell it
> in a small country, where the big oil tycoons don't have that much support, and
> watch yourself become the world's richest man.

Actually I'm using superior in the sense of ecological impact, as well as
amenability to economic decentralization.  And stop trying to interest me in
becoming the world's richest man.


> > You know, it's not necessarily such a great idea to spill oil all over the
> place
> > and tear up wildlife refuges in order to keep finding more of it.
> 
> Wildilfe refugees suck. I'd destroy them only for the huge economic setback
> they've caused in the last decades. Spilling oil all over the place is only a
> problem because "the place" isn't private property.

Skewed.

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