February 12, 2004

oil

evo car icon.jpg
I grew up partly in Texas and my dad, a geo­lo­gist, spent a lot of time in the oil busi­ness.
So Middle East poli­tics aside, oil is not something I have ever had a lot of trou­ble with.
Yeah, it

3 Responses to “oil”

  1. Bret says:

    Oil isn’t going anywhere any time soon. If anything, wouldn’t tech­no­logy make it chea­per? Tech­no­logy doesn’t get worse over time…

  2. hugh macleod says:

    Tech­no­logy has done nothing but make oil chea­per for the last 100 years; I ima­gine it will con­ti­nue to do so for a while yet.
    My inte­rest is not in how we’re going to “save the world”. My inte­rest is in the new oppor­tu­ni­ties that are crea­ted as the world chan­ges.
    Call it “envi­ron­men­tal capi­ta­lism”, if you will.

  3. Bosko says:

    No, we’re not going to run out of oil before we kill our­sel­ves with it. The real pro­blem is sus­tai­ning our­sel­ves in our envi­ron­ment, an envi­ron­ment long neglec­ted or not prio­ri­ti­zed in busi­ness, until now. Just because oil is not an infinite-supply resource doesn’t mean that we’re in any rea­lis­tic dan­ger of run­ning out. Howe­ver, the pro­blems that it intro­du­ces to our envi­ron­ment is beco­ming more and more of a high-priority issue and, at some point, some bold busi­ness­per­son will take the industry through the tran­si­tion. Until then, don’t throw out your gasmasks.