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Re:Entrepreneur’s Letter to Obama: Give Americans a Great Ch... by youngerdryas on Friday January 25, 2013 @05:31PM (#5118086)
Better fuel efficiency is bad. Welcome to bizarro world!
Re:Entrepreneur’s Letter to Obama: Give Americans a Great Ch... by SilasX on Friday January 25, 2013 @05:39PM (#5118131)
The bizarro world where improved efficiency of coal use led to more coal use, rather than people miraculously keeping the same pattern of behavior despite the increased utility of using coal?

The bizarro world where nobody ever increases their fuel use in response to its greater effectiveness of use?

The bizarro world where people can feel like they've said something insightful simply because they're advocating greater fuel efficiency regardless of how poorly they understand the system in which it operates?

Re:Entrepreneur’s Letter to Obama: Give Americans a Great Ch... by youngerdryas on Friday January 25, 2013 @05:48PM (#5118182)
Apparently less efficiency would be better. I think we're done here.
Re:Entrepreneur’s Letter to Obama: Give Americans a Great Ch... by ori_b on Friday January 25, 2013 @05:59PM (#5118234)
If your goal is purely to reduce amount of oil being burned, then making it impractically expensive to use oil-burning machines works. Making them extremely inefficient is one way to go about this.
Re:Entrepreneur’s Letter to Obama: Give Americans a Great Ch... by youngerdryas on Friday January 25, 2013 @06:30PM (#5118391)
Making things inefficient is for corrupt officials.
Re:Entrepreneur’s Letter to Obama: Give Americans a Great Ch... by SilasX on Friday January 25, 2013 @06:43PM (#5118446)
You're certainly done thinking carefully about the issue, and have been for a while...