[TheForge] crude oil ( was Re: OT: several questions and thoughts )

[Demon Buddha]

terry l. ridder wrote:
> hello;

> go back to using glass containers.

	Not a bad idea, but folks bave b ecome so bloody lazy that I think it 
will take a whip to get them back to this sort of practice.

	

 > i remember when service
> stations received barrels of oil and pumped/poured the oil into glass
> bottles. i have a few in my garage that belonged to my grandfather.
> 
> i remember when soda bottles were glass and had a deposit of 0.02
> us cents on them and large bottles had a nickel deposit on them.
> 
> i also remember when milk came in glass quart bottles.
> 
> what really needs to be done is ban the automobile. it is total and
> utter insanity that hundreds of thousands of workers commute to and from
> work by themselves in such a resource hungry mode of transportation.

	On what legal premise would you base such a ban?
> 
> the north american public transportation system is a disgrace.

	Well, people wanted to flee the cities, and that's just what they did. 
  Henry Ford enabled it.
> 
> the american love affair with the automobile must come to an end.

	Material reality will probably make your statement so, in time.  I'd 
recommend going back to the horse, but could you even begin to imagine 
what this nation would be like with, say, 200 MILLION horses being used 
as transportation?  The manure management issues alone would be 
staggering, not to mention feed.  OTOH, whole new markets would open up 
and the pace of life would be forced to slow.  Not a bad side effect, 
IMO.  Imagine leaving the rest of the world BEHIND to rot in their 
filth.  Ah well...