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Non-Tech : Alternative energy
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To: atticus4paws who wrote (2923)4/24/2006 5:17:46 PM
From: Rock_nj  Read Replies (2) of 16955
 
I just saw a debate between an ardent "free market" supporter and the head of Greenpeace USA on FOX News. They were debating who's to blame for high gasoline prices. There is plenty of blame to go around to the supply/demand problems that are causing the prices to go up.

It's kind of funny to hear the "free market" guy saying the Greenpeace guy was anti-free markets and technology, when in a strange turn of events it is the modern environmentalists who are in fact looking for technological solutions to our energy and environmental problems. The Greenpeace guy made his point that they (the environmentalists) want to advance technology and were petitioning the Big Three automakers to adopt more fuel efficient car models like hybrids, but were faced with resistence, and now our cars are consuming so much oil that the price is going up.

It has come full circle. Now it's the enviros who are looking to technology to solve our problems and others who supposedly support "free market" solutions who get upset at innovation like the suggestion of doing away with the Internal Combustion Engine, and replacing it with something a lot more efficient and cleaner. Here's a free market idea, how about making oil pay for the military protection that it enjoys from the U.S. government, as all free market products should pay their true and fair cost? That would increase the price of gasoline by many dollars and really make cleaner altnernatives more competitive in the free marketplace.
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