I think your problem is that you are looking at it only from economics. You also have to look at it from the physics point of view - thermodynaics and entropy type stuff. After all what we are trying to do is get energy. Even if oil is a million bucks a barrel it is still a loosing game if it takes more energy to produce the barrel then what we get out of it. That is why it makes no sense to use oil sand or ethonal as an energy policy.
Secondly, this free market religion is very dangerous and plain wrong. There are huge tax breaks and incentives for our current oil system so we are currently not in a free market system. Also, it seems quite logical that the change is so huge that if we wait until everyone realizes this problem (when we are in severe recession) then we will not have the resources to make the changes.
A rat done bit my sister Nell with Whitey on the moon. Her face and arms began to swell and Whitey's on the moon. I can't pay no doctor bills but Whitey's on the moon. Ten years from now I'll be payin' still while Whitey's on the moon.
The man just upped my rent last night cuz Whitey's on the moon. No hot water, no toilets, no lights but Whitey's on the moon. I wonder why he's uppin me. Cuz Whitey's on the moon? I was already givin' him fifty a week but now Whitey's on the moon.
Taxes takin' my whole damn check, The junkies makin' me a nervous wreck, The price of food is goin' up, And as if all that shit wasn't enough:
A rat done bit my sister Nell with Whitey on the moon. Her face and arms began to swell but Whitey's on the moon. Was all that money I made last year for Whitey on the moon? How come there ain't no money here? Hmm! Whitey's on the moon.
Ya know, I just about had my fill of Whitey on the moon. I think I'll send these doctor bills airmail special.... to Whitey on the moon.
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I think your problem is that you are looking at it only from economics. You also have to look at it from the physics point of view - thermodynaics and entropy type stuff. After all what we are trying to do is get energy. Even if oil is a million bucks a barrel it is still a loosing game if it takes more energy to produce the barrel then what we get out of it. That is why it makes no sense to use oil sand or ethonal as an energy policy.
Secondly, this free market religion is very dangerous and plain wrong. There are huge tax breaks and incentives for our current oil system so we are currently not in a free market system. Also, it seems quite logical that the change is so huge that if we wait until everyone realizes this problem (when we are in severe recession) then we will not have the resources to make the changes.
A rat done bit my sister Nell with Whitey on the moon.
Her face and arms began to swell and Whitey's on the moon.
I can't pay no doctor bills but Whitey's on the moon.
Ten years from now I'll be payin' still while Whitey's on the moon.
The man just upped my rent last night cuz Whitey's on the moon.
No hot water, no toilets, no lights but Whitey's on the moon.
I wonder why he's uppin me. Cuz Whitey's on the moon?
I was already givin' him fifty a week but now Whitey's on the moon.
Taxes takin' my whole damn check,
The junkies makin' me a nervous wreck,
The price of food is goin' up,
And as if all that shit wasn't enough:
A rat done bit my sister Nell with Whitey on the moon.
Her face and arms began to swell but Whitey's on the moon.
Was all that money I made last year for Whitey on the moon?
How come there ain't no money here? Hmm! Whitey's on the moon.
Ya know, I just about had my fill of Whitey on the moon.
I think I'll send these doctor bills
airmail special....
to Whitey on the moon.
Copyright Gil-Scott Heron, 1972