Are the Mainstream Automotive Journalists - Namely Warren Brown Starting to Get it?

joe1347 · Dec 9, 2007

Caught Between a Growth Myth and a Price Doctrine

By Warren Brown
Sunday, December 9, 2007; Page G02

We are being taken for a ride, the conclusion of which will leave us in an unhappy place if we allow Congress to continue treating us as children.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/06/AR2007120602018.html

I am referring to current congressional thinking on national energy policy, which is based on the Myth of Endless Growth and the Doctrine of Uninterrupted Joy.

Likewise, do any of you believe that oil is inexhaustible, that we can replace it easily and cheaply with alternative and renewable fuels, that we can develop easily and cheaply a safe and effective infrastructure for delivering those new fuels, that we can save petroleum by making car companies produce more fuel-efficient cars and trucks, or that we can increase oil production by stripping federal tax supports from petroleum companies while we, the American consumers, content ourselves with doing nothing, or not paying anything extra for improved fuel efficiency and energy conservation?
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I'll be the first one to admit that I've bashed Warren Brown repeatedly for some of his recent gas guzzler related columns - but it's starting to look like Warren has taken to heart some of the none too subtle suggestions to learn more about peak oil. From his latest linked column - I wonder if he recently watched Prof. A. Bartlett's disturbing video on Arithmetic, Population and Energy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bartlett

So is a glowing 2008 Prius review up next for Warren?

tripp · Dec 9, 2007

joe1347 said: ↑

I'll be the first one to admit that I've bashed Warren Brown repeatedly for some of his recent gas guzzler related columns - but it's starting to look like Warren has taken to heart some of the none too subtle suggestions to learn more about peak oil. From his latest linked column - I wonder if he recently watched Prof. A. Bartlett's disturbing video on Arithmetic, Population and Energy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bartlett

So is a glowing 2008 Prius review up next for Warren?
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Wow... he said it. People need to pull their heads out of their arses and realize that it's a two way street. I'm assuming that he leans to the right politically. For him to espouse a fuel tax (above what we've already got) is very interesting.

Are the Mainstream Automotive Journalists - Namely Warren Brown Starting to Get it?

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tripp Which it's a 'ybrid, ain't it?

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Are the Mainstream Automotive Journalists - Namely Warren Brown Starting to Get it?

joe1347 Active Member

tripp Which it's a 'ybrid, ain't it?