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[kahljorn]

Did you like that article I sent you?

[Preechr]

Originally Posted by kahljorn

Did you like that article I sent you?

I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but I will tonight.

I also found some video of the presentation highlighted in the fourth book I sent you. It rocks. I'll send it on tonight. Barnett actually calls the Lexus and the Olive Tree an essential foundation for his work, so I'm glad I sent it to you, even though you found it annoying.

[kahljorn]

i liked the book, he's very smart. The stuff he talked about made sense. I just felt like I was reading a children's book.

[Preechr]

Well, given the average American's near total lack of knowlege regarding anything economic, it basically is.

[kahljorn]

If there was anything even close to a case against them on that sort of grounds, they'd already be in court."

lol :O I don't know, I see all sorts of things going on that I consider unethical but they manage to slip by unpunished/unregulated. What about political lobbying with your personal interests in mind? Hasn't exxon, and the oil industry in general, aided in proving that global warming is made up by hippy-liberals? If politics favoring one religion should be regarded as wrong, what about politics favoring one industry -- and disregarding scientific facts, and not just disregarding, but misrepresenting (although I admit it's not just the oil industry who did that). Didn't Atlas shrugged contain similar acts, which were painted as "Evil"?

BUT petroleum technology is where we are currently invested, and that's what Asia is using to build it's new industrial economic structure upon. Asia's energy needs over the next ten years far outstrip our own, and if the middle east and northern South America/ Meso-America has any hope for success, oil production is the single most important factor for that region.

That was actually my point by saying that we live in a .. meta-industrial age. Most of those countries need oil for their emerging industries, but shouldn't america, the technological prowessness, be beyond relying on oil? How much more investment into oil can there really be? How efficient is oil, despite technological "Advances" (which, I'm sure, the "Oil industry" "Invested" in begrudgingly). Can you really argue that the oil industry has done anything other than restrain emerging energy markets?
So, what would happen to other people's industries if we weren't as reliant on oil? Wouldn't it stand to reason that they would have more oil so they could propagate their industry? The problem with that is that other countries don't necessarily have environmental ordinances and other industrial "rules" that we find necessary.

where's the plan for seizing their profits?

In my asshole Seriously, I hate those jerks.

"Do you believe Exxon, an energy company, is planning on it's own extinction?"

No. Not at all, I think they are planning their own profit, but i think that sometimes corporations are more interested in short-term profit than long-term gains.

Again, I don't really think their profits should be seized. but at the same time I would like to see some type of push into a new type of energy, rather than pushing the old type of energy.