Dynosor, by capitalists do you mean one of those money grubbing ex commie ba##stads that have finally seen the light and are now shovelling the loot in all directions to get a slice of the pie we've been eating all these years because we're not so bl##dy stupid with our ideology?
I don't see the Chinese turning their noses up at my dollars now, when I buy on the China Ebay websites, not a hair out of place on their heads when I buy their exported goods.
That is the kind of common sense I like to relate to, not some pontificating do gooders thinking they're going to make things right by cutting their noses off.
Incidently, I have a number of investments in the eastern bloc, and they're very considerate and courteous over there when you play the game and admit to fair play, not petty Western pseudo politics that just cloud the real meaning of cross border trade preferences.
I have a very great liking for electric cars, as you no doubt have observed, and the situation you pose of smoke belching chimneys from the dark Satanic mills that would be present when the oil runs out and the coal starts to increase in volume "aint never gonna happen".
Why? because it's the capitalists that have to pay the bl##dy miners to go down the pits to dig the stuff out, not at the present rate but in vastly increasing quantities, and as the coal mine owners are finding it more and more difficult to find any worthwhile seams of coal, I leave it to your imagination.
You could of course have a Nuclear power plant next door to you, that would certainly increase the property values. I hear land packages are going dirt cheap in the Chernobyl area now that facility has shut down.
In my very humble opinion, and for what it's worth, the world has bust the bank on human production, and as there is a glut of human raw material, wouldn't it be a sane idea to just harness this valuable resource, it is infinately sustainable you know, and get a bit back for all the resources squandered by it?
If we go back to square one and forget the oil, coal, atomic energy, space research and any other fancifull ideas that consume vast amounts of resources but leave little to advance the progress of all life forms, then you have a formular to progress into the 21st cent without repeating the mistakes of the last several thousand years.
It's only when the chips are down that the sleepers raise their heads and wonder what all the fuss is about.
Of all the most memorable endeavours by man, the most notable is the car.
It has allowed somone who lives in one place to travel miles or kilometers back and forth to a work place without any gain, but certain in the knowledge that they'd rather be somewhere else.
I was walking down the road the other day when I was passed by a motor cycle, so what? It was electric, doing about 30 Kmh, it went by like a puff of wind and as quiet as the grave.
I couldn't care less if it took a couple of kilos of dirty coal to make the electricity to run the thing, one thing is for sure, that is the way to go, the electricity can be produced in viable quantities by many other clean means, and sufficient for all our needs when we get rid of the excess population and concentrate on having a better standard of living.
I'm not advocating mass suicide or genocide or any other cide that comes to mind, just stop doing IT for a while and let the population level subside for a bit.
Meanwhile I'll have a look at the Tesla electric car and see how that is turning out. Might be able to get one second hand on Ebay soon.
Ian.  |