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Originally Posted by belsarius
Yeah, its like vilifying tobacco companies for people getting sick off their product. They smoked it it's their problem....
The companies only spent billions in advertising, billions to make their product appealing to a wider customer base, billions to lobby governments to keep science down and their profits up.
So now it's those poor fossil fuel companies are the victims in all of this.
Talk about psychological displacement.
We aren't hooked to fossil fuels because it is the only energy. We are hooked to fossil fuels because the fossil fuel companies spent a whole #### ton of money to make it the dominate energy source of our economy. In the end, we do only consume it because they produce it, because they were very active in ensuring nothing took its place.
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You couldn't be more wrong. We are "hooked" on it because it is the cheapest, easiest, most energy dense form of energy we can get our hands on. The idea that we have replacements just waiting around not being used because the oil companies have brainwashed us is ridiculous. If what you say is true, you personally should have no problem giving up all forms of petroleum in your life. Why aren't you doing that?