Comments on: Good news about energy http://blog.longnow.org/2010/06/23/good-news-about-energy/ The Official Weblog of The Long Now Foundation and Friends Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: gary demos http://blog.longnow.org/2010/06/23/good-news-about-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-20964 gary demos Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:06:03 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/?p=2518#comment-20964 I believe that thanking big oil is a little off the mark. It seems that many technologies have become obsolete for one reason or another. There is more than one reason that oil is becoming inappropriate for propelling vehicles. To become sentimentally attached to oil seems odd. It's an inanimate object. As far as big oil goes ....... there are both good things that have come about and negative things that the oil companies have done. As Buckminster Fuller said .... making money and making sense are mutually exclusive. For the most part .... big oil making money seems to be their number one priority .... often at the cost of making sense. I believe that thanking big oil is a little off the mark. It seems that many
technologies have become obsolete for one reason or another. There is more than one reason that oil is becoming inappropriate for propelling vehicles. To become sentimentally attached to oil seems odd. It’s an inanimate object. As far as big oil goes ……. there are both good things that have come about and negative things that the oil companies have done. As Buckminster Fuller said …. making money and making sense are mutually exclusive. For the most part …. big oil making money seems to be their number one priority …. often at the cost of making sense.

]]> By: bulbul http://blog.longnow.org/2010/06/23/good-news-about-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-20900 bulbul Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:21:58 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/?p=2518#comment-20900 That is quite first world centric- how will asia manage its energy- In India i just see limp efforts when there is so much sun and wind and water! That is quite first world centric- how will asia manage its energy- In India i just see limp efforts when there is so much sun and wind and water!

]]> By: vanderleun http://blog.longnow.org/2010/06/23/good-news-about-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-20624 vanderleun Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:45:06 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/?p=2518#comment-20624 Humm.... I took your advice and signed up on Newstrust. That's quite an interesting list of "trusted sources" especially when it comes to blogs and TV. An object lesson in confirmation bias if there ever was one. Humm…. I took your advice and signed up on Newstrust. That’s quite an interesting list of “trusted sources” especially when it comes to blogs and TV. An object lesson in confirmation bias if there ever was one.

]]> By: vanderleun http://blog.longnow.org/2010/06/23/good-news-about-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-20623 vanderleun Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:37:05 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/?p=2518#comment-20623 Zowie, what a sheaf of glad tidings of great joy to all peoples! But I do think you should also thank Big Oil for making everything you have and everything you see around you and everything you have had all your whole life long possible up to now and for the reasonably foreseeable future. Zowie, what a sheaf of glad tidings of great joy to all peoples!

But I do think you should also thank Big Oil for making everything you have and everything you see around you and everything you have had all your whole life long possible up to now and for the reasonably foreseeable future.

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