19th September 2005, 4:13 AM
ABF, do you honestly think that "Big Oil" is somehow actually suppressing the progress of technology? Sorry, that's not happening. Alternative fuel sources are developing and they can't be stopped. The problem is they just aren't ready yet.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)