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Originally Posted by AkDiesel
Just gotta love it...
People demanding more power for the techno that is in our lives today...
People not demanding the power companies or auto companies to make better items... or cleaner power but looking to the "Mother Government" to do what each of us should be doing.
Eco groups laying full blame at the people and not the planet....
There are things going on with the planet that mankind has no control over ,,, but that is never talked about..
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Thats the way you see it is it?
Oil is subsidized by the government in a myriad of ways. You don't have to look hard to discover them:
New York Times one week ago.
So, speaking of "mother government", perhaps if we hadn't been subsidizing oil for the last 40 years, we wouldn't be in this predicament.
Need I go on to illustrate the personal ties that our elected officials have to the oil industry? Need I illustrate the importance of oil in our relationship with "allies" such as Saudi Arabia?
I wonder if we'd even care if it weren't for oil.
Do you think there is a chance that the war in Iraq is an oil subsidy? After all, it's not like our oil companies are actually drilling for new oil - did you know that? They make the big $ from refinement.
When the government encourages American's to save by putting pretty pictures on quarters, creating tax shelters for IRA's, etc... that is Mother Government.
When the government manipulates the economy through federal reserve interest rates, that is Mother Government.
When the government gives "child tax credits" and allows tax deductions for such things as health care costs, that is Mother Government at work.
The problem here, is that the situation of our dependence on oil is too urgent to rely on a free market reversal of an already manipulated market. We don't have 40 years. Some things really are irreparable and it looks like the results of global warming is one of them.
Would we have won WWII without conscription?