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...someone's going to develop clean coal. That's very possible. They're certainly going to be doing more wave power, more wind power, better solar-generation materials. That's on the way, and who knows what else is out there? But it's not going to forever be oil...
...profit. Which way do you currently see humanity leaning? Oh, I think it's entirely what it says in the book - it's a matter of choice. We've got two possible futures: a really horrible one and a really good one. We're going to run out of oil. It's not a renewable resource. So that will happen. Meanwhile, we are very busy in creating all kinds of new tech that might save us. What will win the race? What will save us? Will it be the wonderful new tech, or will it be the collapse of oil...
...make a big enough change by being forced into it? They don't usually. It's not enough to say you have to be good; everybody does that for about a week and then runs back to their old habits. Eventually necessity forces a change. That will happen when oil is so expensive that you can no longer afford to use it to make plastic bags out of it. And instead of that, we will use it for things we really need...
...think we should try to change that? It will change back on its own if oil runs out or gets scarce. People will not drive their kids to school anymore. They may bike them to school, or maybe we'll have some other vehicle; maybe we'll have electric cars. But people will not use oil-driven cars to drive children to school because it will be expensive to do that...
This was not a small election. This was a big election. But McCain talked about earmarks instead of about changing the tax code. When the issue was energy independence, his focal point was drilling instead of getting us off this addiction to oil...