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Originally Posted by eeyore  you mean apart from the enourmouse injections of cash they get from the oil companies and related interests who have a vested interest in denying that releasing tonnes or carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is a bad thing - the total ammount that the gov't invests in climate research each year is less than 0.01% of what saudi arabia takes in one day from oil revenue - go figure.
plus the next largest contributor to CO2 release is building (principally the manufacture of cement and concrete) and that interest group isnt exactly short of a bob or two either.
also - and i know ive said this before -but even if the ipcc are completely wrong about climate change the oil is still going to run out - in most of our life times - and petrol prices will rocket as soon as supply is inadequate for demand which will happen much sooner, plus oil is a vaulable industrial resource and once it becomes scarce will be too precious to be burned - therefore investing in alternative sources of energy is going to be necessary anyway |
there have been alternative fuels sat on the shelf for ages, bio fuels for one, the reason they have not been introduced is the massive amounts the big oil companies have got invested in the production of oil, they will not "invent" any of these till they have to, when south africa was under sanctions and embargos during the apartheid years they starting producing oil from coal,sasol pioneered the technology though it had been known for a long time it was possible, reason for not using it ,expense, as in all things the underlying factor is greed,if legislation prevents a company from making something cheaply in a country answer move to the third world and carry on.
most of these companies have the next generation of whatever it is they manufacture in place, ie mobile phone companies have just released 3G technology yet the equipment for 4G is sat next to it ready for the switch on, i spent a few months installing them, the same applies for most things these days imo eventually even these big corps will realise all the money in the universe wont make a difference if they make the planet uninhabitable, lets hope they wake up in time
sorry for the rant !!!! just makes me so mad
