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Originally Posted by belsarius
It isn't cheap. We are not pricing in the externalities of it's use. And when someone tries to do that, with say a carbon tax, the entire industry loses it's mind and spends millions fighting it. To the point where even our governments are spending millions and end up fighting cartoon characters who might be anti-oil.
You talk about not having a better alternative, but the reason we don't is directly because of the oil companies lobbying against those alternatives.
We are a drug user and they are our pushers. And anytime someone else tries to help us break the addiction, they get knifed by the pusher. And somehow the pusher is absolved of any wrongdoing because they are just trying to make their profits?
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I don't buy in to your narrative at all. Some grand conspiracy where every government on the planet is working with Big Oil to keep technologies that totally exist and easily replace oil are held down...
Or, the reality that cheap energy is a necessity to our modern civilization, and it's really really hard to come up with a alternative, despite decades of R&D and investments, what we have is the best we can achieve. It'll get better, but it takes time.