>Oil and gas run the furnaces that are used for heating in all sorts of
>manufacturing facilities. Higher costs here would require such firms
>to cut costs in other areas - like eliminating pensions and
>offshoring. Manufacturing moves its raw material and final products
>via truck, and higher fuel costs raise those costs too. With the
>same disastrous effect for the working class.
>
>I suppose those of us working in manufacturing can move to the various
>Megalopolises and became cooks and waiters, which is where the job
>growth seems to be.
Why is so hard to grasp the fact that we're courting disaster by burning hydrocarbons at such a furious rate? I say this as someone not given to apocalyptic thinking. It's barely a matter of scientific controversy anymore, though I'm sure James Heartfield would differ.
Doug