[In response to the successful flight of a solar powered plane]
Hot idea. I am a Theist. I believe that evil tries to derail us. God gave us oil — all the oil we will ever need. You can see is gushing forth on BP.com. I can’t drive my car on wind and I play golf in my golf cart but that damned thing is good for 30 miles max (at 15 mph) and will get me killed on an interstate. Drill Dammit Drill !!
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God gave us oil all the oil we will ever need.
Forget who "gave" us the oil for a moment... To think that we have all we could ever need is environmentally irresponsible at its worst. The prehistoric plant matter took millions of years to convert to oil. Since the Industrial Revolution, man has consumed said resource at a rate much, much higher than replacement. This means eventually we will run out.
Have you never heard of the concept of peak oil?
Following your illogic, God gave us Oxygen too.
If Man were meant to fly burn Oxygen in an Internal Combustion Engine, he'd have wings a carburetor up his ass!
So my advice to you is, take your head out of there and go shove a carburetor!
You know, the whole point of solar planes isn't even to get away from fossil fuels for some sort of environmental purpose - it's to stay aloft indefinitely, and you can't do that with fossil fuels. Period. Moron.
All the oil we will ever need?
... yeah, cause Jesus will come back before it runs out! Any day now ... *checks watch* ... real soon ...
"I can’t drive my car on wind..."
YET. But there was a time when you couldn't connect to the internet on your telephone, or travel around the world in less than a month. Science makes the impossible possible all the time.
Okay, let's play by your rules and assume that God put oil here 6000 years ago. Did he say "and ye shall use oil only to power your horseless chariots and other devices?"
Alternative power is also useful for electrical power generation. You can't drive a car on pure wind, but if it's running on electricity then that can be generated any way.
Wow, people talking like this means the oil industry has us right where they want us.
Take from the poor to feed the rich obese.
Well, The Good Book basically says everything in the nature is free for man (Bible seems to be directed to men, at least in translations) to use. What this man doesn't take into account is that man (or a woman) can't use non-existant resource. In other words, he's an idiot.
What stupid, myopic thinking. How do you know there is "all the oil we will ever need" much less that God gave it to us? Just seeing an horrificly huge oil spill doesn't measure the oil supply against our future needs.
The current state of wind and solar power and the electric vehicle technologies doesn't reflect their potential. Their current state of development I might add has been actively retard by the likes or you and your ilk.
I believe that evil tries to derail us.
Solar power is evil now?
God gave us oil all the oil we will ever need
And he gave most of it to the Muslims. What does that tell you about where your god's loyalties are?
You can see is gushing forth on BP.com.
That's supposed to be a good thing?!
I can’t drive my car on wind
That's a terrible strawman. You know damn well that wind isn't proposed as a viable alternative energy source for cars.
I play golf in my golf cart but that damned thing is good for 30 miles max (at 15 mph) and will get me killed on an interstate
Okay?
Drill Dammit Drill
You know what "drill, damnit, drill" got us? I'll let you answer this with your own words:
You can see is gushing forth on BP.com
(Even if this is a Poe, I could easily imagine that there are actually people fool enough to make the same arguments he makes, individually at least)
Apparently "Theist" is another word for "retard".
1. The amount of oil is finite and is created by natural processes, not Jeebus magic.
2. The oil in the BP spill, while massive in the scale of impact it will have on the ocean, is not as massive on the scale of the amount of oil that we collectively consume.
3. Wind is not the only alternative fuel source (I say this because it is obvious that "drive my car on wind" is infeasible but it is the only example of a car running on an alternate fuel source that you give, making it a bit of a straw man).
4. If everyone was driving a car that went 30 mph max, there would be no problems on the interstate.
5. FAIL.
God gave us oil all the oil we will ever need.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why religion is dangerous. These people believe that we have enough oil to last us until the end of the world, so why bother conserving energy?
"God gave us oil all the oil we will ever need."
Uh... except for the part where there's a very much limited amount of oil left.
Here's the bottom line: we can either start working on alternative energy sources now and be ready for the time when oil runs out or we can just wait to do all that research and development until the crisis is upon us and we're all fucked.
But I guess being a red-state cliche is more important to mpeters.
Sure, if by "all the oil we will ever need" you mean "enough oil to last for about 20-30 years before it all runs out."
Nitwit. What do you think the term "nonrenewable resource" means?
"God gave us oil"
Unfortunately, the largst reserves are under Saudi Arabia. Ol' King Abdullah has you & your country by the balls.
Methinks that, before long, you cuntservatives will have no choice but to admit the 'Commie tree/bunny huggers were right all along and have to resort to using alternative power sources.
Why do you think General Motors have been doing R&D on Hydrogen Ful Cells, for their Hy-Wire car?
"I can't drive my car on wind"
No. But, with some modifications, you can drive your car on vegetable oil.
If God gave us oil, why didn't he give us the means to extract it in a way that doesn't severly damage and pollute the environment...the environment that God supposedly made as well. Hm. Can't answer that, can you?
Maybe all the oil you'll ever need, but it's running out. There are no more dinosaurs/fauna 'fermenting' to make more of it.
But then, your 'God' also 'gave' us the wind, the sun, and hydrodynamics as alternative power methods.
Why in the world would you even be opposed to free, plentiful energy we could get with little effort? You'd really rather all energy came from deep-sea wells and resulted in floods like this one?
Why do you hate progress?
1. Oil is not unlimited.
2. Oil kills.
Furthermore, using your logic, we should all go and have sex with whoever we want, REGARDLESS OF GENDER, because "God gave us sex!" Not that I see anything wrong with that.
That's pretty impressive, turning a solar plane into 'religious' bullshit.
Also, a quick lesson on how oil works: there's shittons of it, but we've tapped the stuff that's easy to get out already. Next up is shit like tar sands. Imagine trying to get sand out of something. Now imagine trying to get something out of tar.
Now imagine trying to get them out of each other.
/That/ is why new energy sources are needed.
Oh, and all that environment stuff.
"I can’t drive my car on wind"
Oh, I'm afraid you [i]can[/i]. [/mega-smartarse]
I hope these British scientists have patented, trademarked, copyrighted you name it, this process, and right up the wazoo. Remember: fossil fuels are a finite resource.
I trust you'll remember that, as your country's companies have to come, cap-in-hand, to this country to licence this new technology, just to run your invalid carriages you call cars, and the UK rakes in the billions, nay, trillions . Japan will pay handsomely for such too.
North American Aviation had to licence the V-12 Merlin engine for their P-51 Mustangs from Britain's Rolls-Royce. Frank Whittl;e ring any bells...?! [/Captured Me-262s]
Science. Killing God. >:D
The oil is dwindling and the oil that we get now is of lesser quality than before. Did God oversleep on his oil-making, or what?
Did evil give us sun, wind and water, then? If so, it seems evil is the way to go...
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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