Great article 'Ian from Surrey', thanks for posting. Archived Message
Posted by spike on February 1, 2019, 5:44 pm, in reply to "My article on Talk Fracking about Brockham oil "
An excellent point made about the oil industry creating demand rather than the other way round. The industry is the biggest vested interest on the planet. 'I have found myself thinking more about this and the related accusation of NIMBYism, which several people have mentioned to me as a reason they feel they can’t oppose the oil and gas industry, being reliant on petrol-derived products for so much of their day-to-day existence. I’m tempted to respond: ‘well okay, but how did it come to be that way in the first place?’ with the point being that personal demands haven’t driven the supply of oil-based products so much as the reverse: the supply made available by oil companies inevitably generates our demand because the whole of society has been designed around this availability of cheap fuel to the point where there’s no other way to live!'
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