<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Big Oil and Big Auto get into a war of words]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Bart Anderson http://www.grist.org/article/catfight/ Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:41:38 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/catfight/1 Typo.

Great set of entries today in Gristmill.

In one passage in this entry: "Apparently the ad infuriated many oil execs, and they're getting ready for a coordinated response. Vines' was just the first sally."  I think you mean "auto industry execs" instead of "oil execs".

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Great set of entries today in Gristmill.

In one passage in this entry: "Apparently the ad infuriated many oil execs, and they're getting ready for a coordinated response. Vines' was just the first sally."  I think you mean "auto industry execs" instead of "oil execs".

]]> Comment #2 by David Roberts http://www.grist.org/article/catfight/ Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:59:05 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/catfight/2 Good catch, Bart

Fixed.

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Fixed.

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]]> Comment #3 by caniscandida http://www.grist.org/article/catfight/ Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:20:10 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/catfight/3 the history of renewables

There is a serious history wanting to be written, about how the development of renewable sources of energy has been suppressed, stifled, dominated, controlled, by the big petroleum players.  Along with their allies in coal and automobiles.  Wind, solar, geo-thermal, tidal, etc., will never get anywhere, until the petroleum companies are sure they will come out ahead.

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There is a serious history wanting to be written, about how the development of renewable sources of energy has been suppressed, stifled, dominated, controlled, by the big petroleum players.  Along with their allies in coal and automobiles.  Wind, solar, geo-thermal, tidal, etc., will never get anywhere, until the petroleum companies are sure they will come out ahead.

]]> Comment #4 by GRLCowan http://www.grist.org/article/catfight/ Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:44:37 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/catfight/4 They will, though ...

when they can sell energy as cheaply, and give as much of the proceeds to government and still get by, as "the big petroleum players".

Maybe they'll never be able to pull in taxes the way gas pumps do; those are after all sin taxes, and it would gall providers of non-sinful energy to have to pay them. That's always been nuclear's problem; and its advance shows that much as the oil interests wish to suppress it, they can't.

(In this connection it's important to understand that through taxation, all those on government paycheques collectively are one of "the big petroleum players"; the biggest by far, in fact.)

--- Graham Cowan, former hydrogen fan
B: internal combustion, nuclear cachet

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when they can sell energy as cheaply, and give as much of the proceeds to government and still get by, as "the big petroleum players".

Maybe they'll never be able to pull in taxes the way gas pumps do; those are after all sin taxes, and it would gall providers of non-sinful energy to have to pay them. That's always been nuclear's problem; and its advance shows that much as the oil interests wish to suppress it, they can't.

(In this connection it's important to understand that through taxation, all those on government paycheques collectively are one of "the big petroleum players"; the biggest by far, in fact.)

--- Graham Cowan, former hydrogen fan
B: internal combustion, nuclear cachet

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