The Fightback against Cutting Electric Prices with Wind Power | 31 comments (31 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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yeah and surfboards, rafts, catamarans, horse-drawn river barges, hangliders, rollerblades, donkey carts, sand-sailors, solar planes, gliders, skis, snowshoes, airships, chipfry diesel tractors, homebrew powered go-karts, biogas pyrolytic hovercraft, canopy zip lines, coach and horses...

it's pure hell once you drop the automobile, huh?

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Tue Aug 10th, 2010 at 09:39:46 AM EST
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... being like trees, permanently rooted in the place we were born, like before the automobile was invented.

Working out how Columbus used the freedom of the automobile to stumble upon America is going to be tricky here, but the important point about history is that it supports the desired conclusion. Any semblance of rational coherence is purely secondary, like the artistic pretensions of directors of big summer blockbusters.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Tue Aug 10th, 2010 at 10:36:49 AM EST
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BruceMcF: