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Why can't we just start utilizing non-oil sources of energy? It would save us allot of trouble. Electric cars , please! We put ourselves in such a confrontational position with the middle east.

― Pennysong Hanle y, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Capitalism. At the moment its true that non-fossil power sources aren't suffciently developed to support the world. But how much of that is down to energy companies eh? I think it's quite obvious they will suppress things like more efficent solar panels and better designed wave generators as long as they can.

― rezna, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Or people could get off their lazy asses, stop sitting around waiting for a better energy source, and, like, ride a bike or something.

― Kerry, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ride a bike? But I'll be all sweaty when I get to my destination. Etc.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not all places can be ridden around in on a bike though.

― Pennysong Hanle y, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I know. I'm thinking of the people who live downtown here who *have* to drive to work. Sprawl is a more difficult problem to resolve - as it is, you can't simply run trains and buses everywhere in the 'burbs. It's a planning problem.

― Kerry, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maybe "GINGER" will solve that problem. He he he. I realy wanted to bike around BOston but I feared for my life! Everyone I knew who biked got in so many accident from cars.

― Pennysong Hanle y, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i have been away due to lack of phone and i return and see the level of discourse is still pretty shabby. what has oil to do with this? other than bin-laden acquiring his funds from oil of course. it is ridiculous to see the rabid anti-americanism especially after i was just in england and noticed not to many differences between americans and brits. i wonder where is the person who chimed in on the aaliyah subject about there needing to be less americans, i imagine he is jumping up and down filled with joy over this week's events. what a sad sad group you are. none of you know anything about the history of palestine, never an independent country the romans created it in 70ad after murdering one million jews and casting the rest from judea, the romans then called it phillistea. there was no such thing as a palestinian until 1967 when arafat began his palestine liberation organization until then they were always known as southern syrians. they have for most of the last 2000 years been merely a province of some larger empire. israel is the only democracy in the middle east, the only person where women have equality with men and the only place where arabs are allowed to vote freely. standing up for such principles is the most honorable thing imaginable.

and electric cars and fantastically inefficent(11% or less vs 28% for internal combusiton engines) and would aid greatly to pollution problems. fuel cells are the wave of the future but still a few years off, until there is a crisis of monumental proportions therw ill not be a pressing need to alter current course. especially with honda having sold only 600 of it's hybrid cars that get 70 miles per gallon even while selling them well below the cost of production.

― keith, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thanks for deigning to share your thoughts with us sad, sad individuals with our shabby level of discourse over subjects we know nothing about. Generous of you.

― stevo, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My goodness. I don't know what set your temper to such a hot level but I can't agree with you that relying on the middle east for our power and relying on a polluting, finite resource for that matter, is a good idea. We have put ourselves in a vulnerable position BECAUSE we rely on oil for everything we do. We aren't self sufficient. And I am not anit' american, you are jumpin gto conclusions. I want to see america healthier, thus, I want to see america in solar powered cars

― Pennysong Hanle y, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

seven months pass...

WE CAN, we just have to start thinking and doing things for ourselves. It means educating ourselves, it means getting our hands dirty, it means getting off our fat asses. It means believing in generating our own energy to fuel our cars. 1. natural gas can be derived from Bio - mass ( sewage,garbage,manure) this can be used to fuel vehicles. 2. Electric power it can be derived from wind mills which charge deep cycle batteries and converted to AC electricity. 3. Solar power, panels on roof to generate hot water and to make electricity from photovoltaic cells. It's not Rocket Science, it's just that we have to take the time to install existing technology and incorporate it into our existing infrastructure.

Russell Doherty

― RUSSELL DOHERTY, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three years pass...

Hmmm...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 February 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Maybe, Ned, but less dependence on oil means more freedom to make geopolitical decisions based on considerations other than ensuring cheap commodity prices and propping up friendly-if-not-necessarily-nice governments. Plus less demand should mean lower prices for what we still consume, which is also good.

― Mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:15 (twenty years ago)

That's a great example of why I don't like Dilbert. It's a cartoon built on needless despair and apathy. The reason for not buying foreign oil is not to avoid "funding terrorism" but to disentangle ourselves frpm military and political attachments against our national interest, not to mention to strengthen our own economy.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:54 (twenty years ago)

It's a cartoon built on needless despair and apathy.

Hooray!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:56 (twenty years ago)

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The reason for not buying foreign oil is not to avoid "funding terrorism" but to disentangle ourselves frpm military and political attachments against our national interest, not to mention to strengthen our own economy.

My guess is that Scott Adams understands this and he's poking fun at all those people who mindlessly vacuum up jingoist government rhetoric without thinking.

― Mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 04:02 (twenty years ago)

But the point of the strip is wrong -- the point about oil just being "another commodity" to be bought and sold on the market. That's how it works now, but the invasion of Iraq was predicated on it ceasing to work like that, sooner or later.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:06 (twenty years ago)

The point of the strip is to poke fun at anything Scott Adams can declare as nonsense. Doesn't matter if there's any truth in it.

― Dave will do (dave225.3), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:19 (twenty years ago)

OMG DILBERT PUNCHLINE IS NOT POLITICALLY OR ECONOMICALLY COGENT FILM AT 11

― Dan (FFS People) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Fungible's not a real world is it?

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:29 (twenty years ago)

INTERNET KNOW-IT-ALLS SLAM SUNDAY FUNNYMAN, FILM AT 11!!111@@@

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Or even a real word!

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:29 (twenty years ago)

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fungible

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Haha Tracer

― Dan (Touche/Hi-Five (Delete As Applicable)) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Bleedin' Americans, they come over 'ere, they steal our language

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:31 (twenty years ago)

There are other comic strips with incorrect economic data, as well. I have a set of bookmarks to examples on an old external LaCie drive at home.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Make sure you note that psychiatric help no long costs only 5 cents.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:35 (twenty years ago)

No longER, etc.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Nice move, you've outsmarted us all.

But my point here isn't really whether or not I know economics better than a cartoonist, it's that a lot of people read stuff like this and go "Ha, yeah, nothin we can do about it anyway." Joke or no, it does reaffirm people's hopelessness.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:18 (twenty years ago)

oil = plastic, don't forget.

― Ricki Rachtman, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:20 (twenty years ago)

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As opposed to all those people who saw a sitting US president invade another country for god knows what reason, imprison people for years on end without charging them with any crime, run up the largest budget deficit in history while pressing for permanent tax "relief" for the wealthy, etc etc etc and still get re-elected. None of those people are going, "Ha, yeah, I guess there's nothing we can do about it anyway."

― Mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:38 (twenty years ago)

Hurting is putting the V8 behind the Jetta!

― Dan (-10 For Me) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:40 (twenty years ago)

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