Sake White

On their trip from London to Geneva (plus 100 urban miles), the BMW pictured above played music and ran air-conditioning while the Prius driver turned off both as he tried to drive very carefully. Nevertheless, the BMW consumed 4.7 liters per 100 km (41.9 mpg) while the Prius has burned 4.9 liters per 100 km in average (40.1 mpg). Subtle BMW gadgets to save fuel seem to be more important than the hybrid core of the Prius as well as its 500 missing pounds.

I said something to this effect when the Climate Change craze came on during the various hurricanes post 9/11.

Humanity, once it has discovered a type of technology it likes, starts developing, refining, and making that technology more efficient. WHen you switch the tech base from petroleum fueled combustion to something else, what you are doing is starting from scratch. When you do that, not only are you adopting a more inefficient and primitive technology, but you are discarding a more advanced and efficient line of research and development. All the energy and resources being wasted on the Prius could have been used to make nuclear power plants, a tech we already have, or make refinements in the internal combustion engine or gasoline burning or bio-diesel or a host of other stuff that has branched off of our original tech base.

Don’t make me remind you that if humanity purposefully sets its tech base back a few hundred years, anyone else in this universe can just come in and wipe us out when they feel like it. You better hurry it up if you have a desire for your species to survive for more than a couple of hundred thousand years.

The inflation in food prices is painful for many Americans, merely annoying to many others; unfortunately it is life threatening for too many in the developing world. Real people will starve so that we can shower money on agribusiness in the name of fighting a problem that may well be non-existent in order for well to do Americans to feel noble that they are helping to save the world.

As mentioned before, death merchants don’t give a damn about that. They sell death and that’s how they make a profit. If people stopped dying, that would be bad for business.

On a larger scale, it is hard to deny that repressed and suppressed aggression always search for discharge. Too many liberal policies enable aggressive discharge by proxy. This is not a coincidence.

Of course it isn’t a coincidence. The death merchants must sustain a never ending cycle of slavery and violence to ensure that they are kept in business, forever.

Link to Shrink’s excellent post.