There Are Substitutes For Oil; There Is

Actually, The Problem In The World Is That There Are Too Many Rich People.

You Take The Huge Income That Comes With A Big Gas Tax, And You Use It To Pay Off Regressive Taxes Like The Fica [federal Insurance Contributions Act] Tax. You Can Help The Poor In Other Ways Besides Giving Them Cheap Gas. You Want To Send The Message That People Want To Be As Efficient As Possible Using Gasoline Until We Can Transition Away From That Need Entirely.

To Err Is Human, But To Really Foul Things Up You Need A Computer.

In Ten Years [i.e., 1980] All Important Animal Life In The Sea Will Be Extinct. Large Areas Of Coastline Will Have To Be Evacuated Because Of The Stench Of Dead Fish.

Organisms Are Starting To Move In Response To Climate Change All Over The Place. Bees Are Disappearing And We Don't Have Many Of The Native Pollinators Left To Replace Them. We're In Deep Trouble; There's No Question About It. But Ecologists Tend To Think Of Something That's Going To Be Bad In Ten Years As Very Fast, And Of Course, Politicians Only Think Of Things In A Two-, Four-, Six-year Cycle.