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Peak oil, economic growth and the big lie : Comments
By Michael Lardelli, published 11/4/2012The ‘Big Lie’ of our economic system is that anyone can get rich.
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Boylsey;
Ahh yes I read an interesting article about the physcology of people
who when faced with something that is a total change to everything that
they have known or experienced in their past, will simply not want to
know anything about it.
Airline people apparently behave like this as it just seems impossible
to them that the airlines could just fade out and close.
Alan Joyce of QANTAS appears to understand what they are facing which
is why Qantas is involved in the biofuel experiment.
It is clutching at straws.
A truck driver I spoke to once about this, just dismissed the problem
with a wave of the hand and said, "Something will come along."
The silver bullet that everyone hopes will come along and save our
souls may just not be there.
Short of cold fusion, there just does not seem to be a solution to
the substitution of transport fuels. Some state that there are good
chemical and physical reasons for this, ie there can be nothing with
a greater energy density than hydrocarbons such as oil.
I guess a molecular scientist could explain that.