This was an advertisement in 1962 for Humble Oil… which became Standard Oil… which became Exxon.
All right! Go Oil!
I heard Al Gore was on SNL this week; he’s everywhere right now, including two times on 30 Rock already this season. This clip, however, is my favorite one with him.
Interesting points, even though, a couple times, the author ultimately confirms the “myths”—he says these things are probably true, just not absolute
The run-down:
1. Don’t gun for everything. We can’t focus too much on the really expensive but uncertain stuff at the outset, like hydrogen cars or cold fusion.
2. Corn ethanol is worse that gasoline.
3. Even better biofuels in the future may never be the answer.
4. Nuclear power is way too expensive and way too slow to get going… not to mention its waste that we still don’t know what to do with.
5. There is kind of a silver bullet: efficiency.
6. We don’t need to wait for a technology revolution to start saving ourselves. Tons of things are already available.
7. We probably do really have to change the way we do things. A bike is still always better than a Prius. A clothesline is still better than a high-efficiency dryer. No matter what, the developing world is going to keep living more and more like us. We need to be careful about where we lead them.
one from my favorite webcomic
