Time magazine's 2019 Person of the Year...

[xseler]

About the only thing I consider relevant from Sweden is Volvo and ABBA.

There. I said it. You're welcome!


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Ok, I'll add Saab to the list. I apologize for the oversight.

 

[MacFromOK]

Unfortunately can't get something for nothing in physics so unless we go back to horses and covered wagons we have to deal with results of using petroleum products for power production in vehicles.

Lol, I remember reading somewhere about the horse poop that huge cities like New York & Chicago had to deal with on a daily basis around the turn of the 19th ... oops... 20th century (1900). Don't remember the numbers, but it was a staggering amount.

Not to mention that food crop production would go down the tubes with horse/mule/oxen-drawn implements and the current world population.


EDIT: Ah, here ya go... "In New York in 1900, the population of 100,000 horses produced 2.5 million pounds of horse manure per day, which all had to be swept up and disposed of."
https://fee.org/articles/the-great-horse-manure-crisis-of-1894/

 

[TerryMiller]

Unfortunately can't get something for nothing in physics so unless we go back to horses and covered wagons we have to deal with results of using petroleum products for power production in vehicles.

Let me add a bit more to this thought. With regards to all the alternative energy systems and "people's" desire to rid themselves of the petroleum industry, I wonder how much of the "systems" have "elements" within them that were made from petroleum?

When AOC came out with the green new deal, my wife seemed to have AOC living rent free in her head. We'd be driving down the road and she would likely come up and say, "well, if we do away with fossil fuels, we won't be able to make such-and-such anymore."

However, she hasn't done that in a while, so I think AOC moved out.

 

[Snattlerake]

More along the lines AOC is an idiot. But thousands of idiots voted for her.

 

[tRidiot]

More along the lines AOC is an idiot. But thousands of idiots voted for her.

And millions could when the left manages to put her on the national ticket...

 

[Perplexed]

And millions could when the left manages to put her on the national ticket...

Anyone who votes now for AOC after the exposures ad infinitum of her inanities should be barred from voting ever again.

 

[Chief Sapulpa]

...Haven't read a Time magazine for over 30 years. I would rather look at kids coloring books in the Dr's office...

I did read a 30 year old time magazine the other day at my doctor's office.

 

[TeleStratMan]

Really like these Airplanes and they burn about 65-80 GALS/HR of Jet A [or Diesel Fuel #1 #2 for AG operations ]
Great Petroleum Products put to Great Use.

 

[Snattlerake]

Anyone who votes now for AOC after the exposures ad infinitum of her inanities should be barred from voting ever again.

Stupid should hurt, bad.

 

[tRidiot]

Stupid should hurt, bad.

It's beginning to hurt our country, but sadly we have so many protections and such a huge economy there are so many buffers built into it, and the regulations and safety nets, it prevents the actual consequences of stupidity from being felt in any real way, it just kicks the can down the road. I'm afraid when it gets bad enough to overwhelm all those things, the house of cards is going to crash badly and then it will be a total collapse.

Then the stupid WILL be felt... and felt hard.