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rob@xyzoom.info.com (Rob Lingelbach) writes:
=In article <65971@cup.portal.com> compata@cup.portal.com (David H Close) writes:
=
=>dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu provided a common non-sequitur,
=>" Getting people out of there [sic] cars is more than a point of
=>" political correctness: At current usage rates, known oil reserves
=>" will last us maybe 100 years or so. This includes oil reserves in
=>" protected areas.
=
=>How can anyone, competent enough to use Usenet, seriously
=>expect that technology will stagnate for the next 100 years, so that the
=>problems faced 100 years from now will be exactly those we face today,
=>except that the oil will have been exhausted?
=
=Speaking of non-sequiturs....
=
=Betting all on technology of the future reminds me of those who are
=cryogenically preserved at time of death, hoping for a cure that may
=or may not come, in the future.  Actually, the analogy should include
=those persons' not making an effort to seek medical attention while
=alive.  We cannot rape the planet without regard to the future.

I almost hate to question a point on "my" side, but I don't see how this
point of Rob's refutes David's above point.  Technology does progress - I
bet some people in 1900 thought we'd continue to use hay and other things
that horses eat instead of oil as the "fuel" for human's main mode of
transportation.  Thus the electric car (or something else we haven't heard
of yet) may be the predominant mode of transportation 50 years from now.

Or meybe it's related to a complaint I heard about the automobile industry -
that even though engines as in most cars today are inefficient and it
wouldn't take tons of work to come up with a more efficient engine, these
companies, in the half-century or more that they've been around, haven't
tried at all to come up with such an engine until the last few years.  Is
that it?


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