Posted on my facebook group on December 8, 2009 at 6:19 PM
Gab O'Waye II
As the world leaders convene in Copenghagen for the UN climate change, let me draw your attention back to some of the contents of a reading I got back in January 2008, from Jerry Flint, former Forbes Senior Editor who was reported to have covered the automobile industry since 1958.
"Solving the energy problem is easy if you pay no attention to the laws of physics ... To pass is easy; to achieve is something else.
The best way to increase fuel economy (and reduce green-house gases, too) is to reduce the weight and engine size of the vehicles ... We could also lower the speed limit to 40 miles per hour nationally. That would do it, too, since engines would shrink, and air resistance is a lot lower at 40 than 60.
If all fails, maybe we resort to the figures-don't-line-but-liars-can-figure rule. Measure fuel economy not by what an engine does, but what it could do.
... Progress is being made, absolutely. But setting impossible targets makes real gains even harder to achieve."
As for me, I quite agree with him, he is a man full of experience but that doesn't very much deter me from the environmentalist stand on the present climate threat. I would agree there is difference between realism and optimism. I wonder if Al Gore or Leonardo DiCaprio could settle my mind on the actualization of the global climate/energy dream of 2020/2050.
Gabriel Omololu Omowaye writes, for Beryl Group, International News.
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