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Originally Posted by Olympiadis
So, who cares to explain to me how collapsing western economies via ultra-high fuel prices, and driving present infrastructure into failure via crushing regulations and government power-grabs is going to help the cause of technological advancement along?
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We could perhaps revisit this question when and if we ever get to the point where we experience ultra-high fuel prices. In point of fact, when adjusted for inflation current prices aren't at all out of line historically. See here:
InflationData: Gasoline Inflation
Note also that Europe manages to run an economy with gas prices twice what they are in the US.
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Did it occur to any of you that allowing our economy to thrive (relatively) on fossil fuel could very well be the primary thing that in fact keeps our technology on pace to actually find reasonable and practical solutions (real solutions) to our current problems and worries about running out of energy?
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Nope, because A) we have a good number of workable alternatives; and B) few people use them because gasoline (and diesel, coal, etc) is cheaper.