WRT RC's P&T's Bullshit! references,
wiki has a nice section on just that.
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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
Even if all the global warming/climate change hypotheses prove to be completely wrong, there's still the issue of what we're going to do about energy in the coming century. It might be prudent to try and reduce waste - even if just until we have a certain feasible replacement for the hydrocarbons actually in place.
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The free market may well be able to find its feet on its own, in this case; when hydrocarbons reach a certain level of cost, there will exist an actual economic incentive to find alternatives, although this argument hinges on ones perceived power of the petrochemical lobbies.