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Originally Posted by RustyLugNut
Also, inventions are never created in a vacuum. If you don't invent it, and it has value, someone else will.
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Exactly. Discoveries are inevitable. If Einstein hadn't developed his brilliant theories, someone else shortly after would have.
At best you can briefly delay scientific discovery / technological advances. The best way to delay advances is to make everyone poor so they don't have free time and don't have excess resources to spend experimenting.
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
IMO liquid fuels are already too expensive.
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... and yet people are abandoning their sedans to purchase the largest vehicles they can afford, which happen to be quite large. My sister just bought a brand new $40k Toyota 4Runner. She "needs" it because she just had her first baby.
Expensive is subjective.