The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #98006 Message #1938242
Posted By: Midchuck
16-Jan-07 - 10:14 AM
Thread Name: BS: Smokers in the Workplace
Subject: RE: BS: Smokers in the Workplace
Guest, what would we do without the internal combustion engine...
Well, we might spend some real money on research to develop a really effective and inexpensive battery or fuel cell so electric vehicles would be a practical alternative...A really cheap, and very rugged solar cell that we could pave roads and parking lots, and roof buildings with, would help also.
We could keep the internal combustion engine but go for minimum size and weight, to minimize both fossil fuel consumption and pollutant output. We need private cars to make our society and economy work, but no one, except a family of eight or ten who are traveling through a roadless jungle, needs a Ford Excursion or the like.
We could go for major improvements in public transportation, to bring it up to the level that they take for granted in Europe (but without so many strikes).
But none of those will happen as long as the oil companies and the American auto industry keep the cash flowing to our beloved Congresspersons.
Peter.