The Fossil fuel companies' bet

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 21 Apr 2013, 21:32

How your pension is being used in a $6 trillion climate gamble

Jeremy Leggett and Bill McKibben, should be worth taking note of...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/b ... ate-gamble

woodburner · Post by **woodburner** » 22 Apr 2013, 06:57

People in general are not bothered about burning fossil fuels and the effect that has. If there is a suggestion of a fuel shortage for cars, the queues at garages can get quite long. People will, and do, sit at level crossings with their engines running for anything up to 20 minutes and beyond.

Why shoild fuel companies think differently, they are only people.

PS_RalphW · Post by **PS_RalphW** » 22 Apr 2013, 08:17

Since getting a car with stop/start, I hate leaving the engine idling for more than about three seconds. With real time mpg metring, I can see the money drain away in front of me...

woodburner · Post by **woodburner** » 22 Apr 2013, 08:30

And, of course, while all the people are queuing for fuel, they are leaving the engine running. In the IIRC, US there were people running out of fuel in the queue when leaving their engines running for hours.

But there's no need to worry, with the government in charge FF burning won't stop anytime soon.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... s-oil.html

Post by **adam2** » 22 Apr 2013, 08:46

Most people IME support some vague notion of restricting FF use, provided of course that it does not affect them.

"if petrol is so bad for the enviroment, the government will have to GIVE everyone electric cars"

"we will all be using hydrogen soon, non polluting and should be almost free if produced from renewables"

"sooner or later the secret alien technology to produce free energy will become available"

And so on.

careful_eugene · Post by **careful_eugene** » 22 Apr 2013, 11:09

adam2 wrote: "sooner or later the secret alien technology to produce free energy will become available"

And so on.

I know 3 otherwise reasonable people who believe that technology that would allow a car to run for hundreds of miles on a litre of fuel was bought and hidden by the Arabs in the 1960's.