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Better fuel efficiency is bad. Welcome to bizarro world!

• SilasX 14y ago
  The bizarro world where improved efficiency of coal use led to more coal use, rather than people miraculously keeping the same pattern of behavior despite the increased utility of using coal? The bizarro world where nobody ever increases their fuel use in response to its greater effectiveness of use? The bizarro world where people can feel like they've said something insightful simply because they're advocating greater fuel efficiency regardless of how poorly they understand the system in which it operates?
  • youngerdryas 14y ago
    Apparently less efficiency would be better. I think we're done here.
    • ori_b 14y ago
      If your goal is purely to reduce amount of oil being burned, then making it impractically expensive to use oil-burning machines works. Making them extremely inefficient is one way to go about this.
      • youngerdryas 14y ago
        Making things inefficient is for corrupt officials.
    • SilasX 14y ago
      You're certainly done thinking carefully about the issue, and have been for a while...