(June 3, 2021 at 3:35 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(June 3, 2021 at 3:28 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Long term, I have long since been angry at even liberal media outlets, who harp on gas prices as much as Fart's news, but I have to agree, seeing morons fill grocery bags/trash bags, really makes one think, "REALLY"?
I get that humans, no matter their politics, don't like having their lives becoming harder by higher prices. But the truth still remains, our species needs to move away from burning fossil fuels. I've gotten lots of flack about "what are you personally doing about it". That misses the point that don't have the national or global power or am I a CEO. If change is going to be made, those globally at the top have the most responsibility.
No, it doesn’t miss the point at all. If a billion people drive a billion fewer miles, turn off a billion lights when they leave a billion rooms, purchase a billion fewer electric swizzle sticks and so on, the impact will be real and measurable. Saying that you aren’t a CEO and don’t have national or global power is simply a rather sad excuse to continue to be part of the problem.
Boru
STILL MISSING THE POINT.
The bullshit claim of "supply and demand" does not take into account that the CEOs market, and tell you what you want, even if that product is not practical or healthy.
Big oil for over a century, even when in the early 1900s were on the edge of solar/battery technology, the Oil CEOs constantly fought and squashed any attempt to compete with them. Tobacco did the same.
Even today, unlike some of our allies, America sells hard spirits on TV, and back when I was a kid, they did not. If big tobacco could get back on TV they would.
It ultimately amounts in all cases about human greed, not practicality, not safety, but MONEY.
And bullshit. While the little guy can collectively be the "David" vs "Goliath" the easier path is for those in power to stop being dicks.
