The 3rd debate

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One person's chicken little is another person's industrious squirrel hoarding nuts for the winter.

And this is important why? Do you worry about the world running out of oil before it implements an alternative? Do you have the same doom and gloom visions expressed by some here?

I will give you this, however - faith is a beautiful thing.

uh... faith in what?

In a perfect world, you would be 100% correct. Unfortunately, we don't live in a perfect world.

No shit?

[quote]I liken your assumption that we can depend upon markets alone to solve the energy crisis to the assumption that we could have waited for market forces to develop nulcear weapons before the controlled economies of the dictators did so.[quote]

Maybe you should be more careful to not assume. I'm not saying anything about dependence. I am stating how it works in reality.

The comparisson to the Manhattan Project is deliberate, btw ... a project of that magnitude could probably significantly reduce our dependence upon oil dramatically.

Of course, there are significant market forces that would do everything in their power to STOP that from happening, now, aren't there?

Yes, PD... market forces work in all directions. But the cycle of growth and decay, catastrophe and renewal continue. Market forces, whatever their origin or purpose, ARE the driving force for change in the world and they always have been.