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The climate change bill is a bad idea, and an example of too little, way too late, and shows complete denial of the link between energy use and GNP.
Our standard of living, capital base, and GNP, are purely the result of exploiting abundant cheap energy supplies to amplify human labor. Most of this bounty is the result of the discovery of petroleum, and technology to exploit this miraculously concentrated energy form. Along side petroleum is the other carbon based energy source, coal.
The availability of this concentrated energy source,, and the original ease of production and use, radically changed society, and the human condition on the planet.
In modern western societies, this energy input represents a human labor amplification of over 100 to 1, and for some tasks more than 250 to 1.
To define the gain in a more familiar way, the average middle class American has the energy equivalent of 25 slaves working for free, every day of...
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