Though climate deniers work hard to convince us the planet is fine, they have ceased to be relevant in the sane world. Every industry is currently figuring out how to lower emissions. Sadly, the world could be at zero emissions if it weren’t for the auto industry.
There are a number of zero-emission vehicles – one that runs on pure water, a car that runs on salt water, and, of course, Bruce DePalma’s N-Machine – that would revolutionize the world as we know it. All of these machines, however, have failed to gain traction and many alternate-fuel innovators have been discredited and died young. But why?
The obvious answer is that the oil industry has too much at stake to allow alternate fuels to thrive. Looking deeper, as The Orion Project has, reveals an oil industry working in close proximity with the US government. Even though oil dependence makes the United States vulnerable, it makes the rest of the world vulnerable as well. Delays in the Keystone XL Pipeline passage ensure that, when resources start drying up, the US will be in possession of one of the largest oil reserves in the world. Only after that resource begins to dry up will you see serious support for zero-emissions fuels.
Of course, at that point, the US government will be sitting on a pyramid of cash in a nearly uninhabitable planet.
-Bob
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