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Originally posted by dd74
Beepbeep: not to sound ingracious, but you do know that if there is a U.S.A. victory in this American-led battle with Iraq, it will insure Europe will continue to get her supply of oil, right?
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Hmm...problem is that oil in itself isn't viable solution in long term. There is good solution to this problems and it's called Fussion Energy. (I don't have time or energy to go into technical details and explain why it's so good, so just bear with me for a while)
Problem is that it needs
huge financial investment over long period of time. We are talking billions of USD/year in 40 years strech. Also, it will concentrate power facilities into few big ones.
It has some other negative conotations as well:
First of all, politicians that decide to fund this won't get any cred from this in their lifetime (which is bad when we deal with GWB-kind populists). Second, it will render oil-companies "somewhat" obsolete (that, my friend
is a huge paradigmatic shift tham many will have hard time swallowing). It will also take away oil profits from middle-east countries (that ironically fund groups like Al Quaida) which will force them into education, R&D and such unpleasent things (a big no-no in fundamental/religious societies) or force them back into third-world countries which they actually were before oil issue arrised.
Unfortunately very few people are idealists. There are far too many (fill in your favorite generalisation here .................................................. .......) for this approach to win in our lifetime. Pity it is.
It will eventually get there as evolution is a b***h but lot's of unnecessary s**t will happend along.
I just hope EU will ditch this oil stuff as soon as possible and pour some money into energy R&D... It will be tough for a while but i think it will pay back in the long term. It's kinda weary/expensive to do oil-controll wars every now and then... stuff is generating CO2 as well.
Yeah...
P.S. If you plan to reply on my posts with "we are best nation in universum and we have god on our side and we do what we please yadda yadda bush is great, let's go to war" please don't.