Reply To: T-shirt designers unite and take over

[Brian H]

JimmyT wrote:
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Brian,
Very well stated. That’s exactly how I’ve always thought of energy use/availability. I’ve realized for a long time that it formed a linchpin of our economy; and probably an Achilles heel over the last few decades.

Perhaps it’s also or more like an underlying Truth-Measure that has been resisted or not confronted very well. Hiding the true cost of driving or growing food by use of subsidy and support from general tax revenue smears and hides what costs belong where, and results in distorted behavior and misplaced effort. Over-rewarding some exertion and energy expenditure and under-rewarding others leads to waste and large opportunity costs (missed opportunities to do things better and more efficiently).

FF would wipe the slate clean in a wide range of areas and give a chance to do things smarter. But lots of peculiar responses could result. Imagine the roads flooded with huge all-electric SUVs. :coolsmirk: Crashing food prices as it got easier to cultivate and fertilize (chemical fertilizers would become very cheap as oil’s price tanked, too), resulting in a surge of gluttony and obesity. :vampire: :bug: Etc.

New inventions: electric passenger planes (on-board FF)? Electric trains (on-board FF)? Electric ocean liners (on-board FF)? Electric submarines (on-board FF)? Deserts irrigated with desalinated seawater pumped hundreds of miles? Maglev moving sidewalks? And roadways? Electric rail-gun artillery (on-board FF)? Electric tanks (on-board FF)?

The bind moggles!