[lit-ideas] Re: Office Hours
- From: Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:18:23 -0700 (PDT)
It's an over the top idea, for sure. At the very
least, though, it does give a sense of why we have
modernity. It's completely, absolutely, because of
oil. Without oil there wouldn't be skyscrapers,
agricultural combines, plastic, of course cars and
planes. The brain is as useless as ever, but the
energy that has been available for the last 150 years
to do things has been beyond description. To think
that one gallon of gas can do the work of 40,000 man
hours is mind bending. That would explain why only a
handful of pyramids but skyscrapers a dime a dozen. I
take your gist, though, and will make an effort to be
more upbeat. It's hard, though, no kidding, it's my
new obsession. Think, think, I gotta think, let's
see, upbeat...
--- Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sometimes when reading Irene I'm reminded of a
> critique of Gore Vidal's
> works: "He seems just a little too eager to
> announce that the barbarians
> are at the gates." I can't remember who said it,
> and the quotation marks do
> not indicate verbatimosity, but gistiness.
>
> This is said in endearment, Irene. I enjoy your
> posts even when I think
> you're over the top, but who knows, you could be a
> hundred percent right.
>
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andy" <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 8:55 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Office Hours
>
>
> > And to do this it costs, now, three bucks. Before
> > today it cost half that. In other words, this
> miracle
> > has been free. Like the playboys of the western
> > world, we squandered our inheritance and even
> complain
> > that gas prices are too high. Too bad there were
> no
> > trustees to slow things down. But there weren't.
> > Today's children will probably see the transition
> into
> > making an honest living again without oil.
> >
> >
> >
> >>Imagine
> >> how
> >> many men it would take to push an SUV at 60 mph
> up a
> >> grade for 15 minutes, in other words, what one
> >> gallon
> >> of refined oil will do. That's the miracle of
> oil.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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