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Originally Posted by sendler
I wish people could realize that we can't "drop fossil fuels". We might be able to transfer half of our electric and some personal transportation (until we run out of materials for batteries), but this is less than half of our total energy consumption. Rebuildables are fossil fuel extenders. There is no replacement for liquid fuel in heavy machinery and transportation at the scale we require to keep the economy going.
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If we extrapolate current use,coupled with geometric population growth we'll have a relatively short time until fossil fuels drop off anyway.
Some business models advocate burning our total hydrocarbon inheritance within a very brief time frame,with no mention of how we'll sustain contemporary standards of killing.
Capitalists only ask for 12-years to move their investments,from occulted technologies into eclipsing technologies.
There's nothing sacred about fossil fuels.They weren't even in the public mind until England burned down it's forests making window glass for yuppy manor houses and had to switch to coal.Then they set up corporate colonies in the Americas,cutting it down and burning America to make glass to export back to England.
There will be,by default,a replacement for fossil fuels,whether we like it or not.CAR and DRIVER's got a lot of tires to smoke,and the days of liquid fuels are numbered.