Originally Posted by
Nightshade
I disagree wiyth the line of thought that this won't drive us from fossil fuels. I think what this will do is advance it significantly because a large part of current society in America was alive to feel the effects of the "energy crisis" of the 70s.
If anything it will re-open those fears (since we seem to have forgotten the lesson) and force a race to the next fuel. First person to crack it gets a nice parting gift of fame and fortune for the next 60+ years.
I am not so certain it will be electric since the batteries are the least environmentally sound idea ever picked. seriously have you seen the strip mining used to create the batteries? add that to the fact that batteries have a charge life...sooo what happens to the batteries? Yes you can recycle them but the waste that produces is toxic and again poses a new round of questions. I am no enviro-nazi by any stretch of the imagination but I am also a realist about the damage we can do.
I really don't think the current crop of Americans really care about these things. They're the same people that throw shit into storm drains and then complain when their kids form cancer.
Like...howdy...it just didn't magically disappear and then appear in your drinking water...
So they'll just be like OMG totally drill that shit, we can live forever. Fuck competing in a global economy. Shut the borders and trade, we want to get paid for 8 hours but only work a grand total of one hour while driving in our huge vehicles and feeding our 4 kids. We're completely capable of making TVs, turquoise jewelry, and Tupperware on our own! We'll show the rest of the world what MADE IN AMERICA really means. errrghhh.
How do these people think we got to where we are? Were we really this inefficient in everything we did? I know we had a lot of oil, and exported it, but at least the workforce wasn't fat and lazy AND we didn't really have anybody else to compete with.
This is going to be great to watch....