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[kispoko]

-If it were TRULY antiquated, we wouldn't use it anymore.


doesn't hold to logic..... amish still ride in buggies, are buggies not antiquated 'cause they still use 'em?

our american society is but a mere microcosm of a place on earth, same as that amish example i just gave, and these vary...... there *is* better technology, we just haven't taken great pains to implement it and develop it, which is the reason for our using it, not because it hasn't become antiquated. others have, however, and soon we'll become like those amish as other nations pass us technologically, relatively speaking, because we're accustomed to just accepting what they throw out for us to use........

at least the amish have better reasoning though, than our doing the bidding for the corporations to ensure there is no easy changing of the guard for them. how stupid are we?



-Our alternative fuel sources still have a way to go. I have no doubt that big oil/timber/cotton have done their best to squelch alternatives.


exactly.


-But the free oil stored for millions of years will ALWAYS be easier and cheaper than collecting the energy the sun provides today.


uh, no..... no it won't. photovoltaics will surpass that easily in time.

and perhaps it will have to, because we don't exactly have much of that "free oil" left, and we're continuing to burn it at breakneck speed....... it won't last 'til the end of the century. what then?


we should probably get started on that.....