what year is this?

this oil spill is a fucking disaster, no arguing that.  and we can get mad at bp for their negligence or at obama for his perceived mishandling of the situation.  but what i’m really pissed about, aside from the obvious, is the fact that it’s 2010 and we’re still burning shit we find in the ground for energy.

seriously?  this goes beyond oil too.  it’s coal, or switchgrass, or french-fry grease.  the car has been around, in some form or another, for like 150 years.  to this day, almost every car on the planet burns shit to run.  same goes with the majority of our power plants.  everyone who grew up watching science fiction should be ashamed.  we should have anti-matter reactors or dilithium crystals or some other crazy nonsense that truly changes the game.  instead we have multi-billion dollar companies sitting around saying, “how can we burn shit better?”

how about, “hmmm, maybe we should try something other than burning shit we find in the ground.”

“naw.  that sounds like a lot of work.”

brilliant.

-srd