Re: Time to cut our dependence on and therefore our interest in the...


"Alan Lichtenstein" <arl@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Jerry Okamura wrote:
>
>> "Alan Lichtenstein" <arl@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>
>>>Jerry Okamura wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>It certainly does matter, Jerry. You posted what will happen and I asked
>>>you if you thought that it was a good thing if people could not afford
>>>gas. Kindly answer the question.
>>
>>
>> And I said, it really does not matter, because if demand for oil
>> outstirps supply, then by definition the price of the oil will rise and
>> you either have to figure out a way to not have to buy the stuff, or you
>> suffer the consequences.
>
> I know what you said, Jerry. You don't need to repeat it. But I then
> asked you if you thought the consequences of people not being able to
> purchase gasoline as a result of YOUR solution was a good thing. don't
> you wish to answer the question? Your avoidance leads to the conclusion
> that you don't want to answer the question out of fear of being taken to
> task for it.

If some large object from outer space hit this earth, it is not a good
thing. If global warming or for that matter if global cooling occurs it is
not a good thing. If a super volcano blows its top it ain't a good thing.
There are a whole lot of things that can happen, that are not "good things".
Obviously, if the world runs out of oil (highly unlikely in the near future)
that is not a good thing. My argument is not whether it is a good thing or
not, because the simple fact is that sometime in the future, regardless of
what we do now, we will run out of oil, because as I believe you said, it is
a "finite" resource. You believe we should take drastic action now, and I
don't believe we need to take any drastic action, because we will adjust.
It may not be pretty, but we will manage to survive without oil, or we will
not.


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