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High oil prices? Tax cars & jet fuel! | 67 comments (67 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Oil use adds much value to nuclear? It obviously adds value to cars, but the value-added of cars to the economy at a macro level is questionable at current levels. We would be better off with a lower volume of traffic (a big share of car drivers included).

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Thu May 29th, 2008 at 12:53:44 PM EST
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I explicity said nuclear was not included here. It doesn't have any direct link with oil. I mean that the things that have been demonised are the things where oil is really important, and on top that nuclear has also been demonised, in spite of not having a direct link to oil anymore.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Thu May 29th, 2008 at 01:38:01 PM EST
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OK. Your argument is still odd. Oil might add a lot of value to cars and the chemical industry. But environmentalists can rely on good arguments against the added value of cars to the economy (at the level they are driven in western countries), which I'd guess would be your bottom line.

(I don't know about the case WRT the chemical industry)

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Thu May 29th, 2008 at 01:45:43 PM EST
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