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Originally Posted by kazbates
Why, with all the incredible advancements in technology and the amazing ingenuity of the human mind, we haven't been able to create a clean viable alternative fuel continual confounds me.  |
That, unfortunately, is easy to answer:
Money. We committed our money and resources to oil and coal, to such an extent that efforts to switch to other forms of energy were easily deflected back to the oil/coal track by the ones holding the purse-strings.
Our governments are literally hogtied by Big Oil and Coal... and worse, they are totally willing and submissive to it. They buy our leaders off with wine, women, mansions and Hummers, and our leaders are more than happy to go along with it. They have been behind every effort to slow, kill or ridicule alternative energies for the past century or so, and in return, the govt has given them subsidies and tax breaks that are lavish compared to those of other industries. Until our leaders have the stones (or the public manages) to lock them out of the chambers long enough to get some honest governing done, that won't change.
That's why we desperately need lobbying reforms, as well as a commitment to put leaders in office who are willing to make the tough choices, which we have to be willing to follow. We have to stop the dirty money trail.