Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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<If you are willing to die in order to protect your local hospital, then you must be willing to die for oil, because without electricity, your hospital won’t take you beyond a surgeon’s scalpel, and a surgeon is helpless without illumination, which is provided (in many places) by oil.>

I would prefer to die for coal-generated electricity, but that's not necessary because we have enough for at least 100 years. I'm also not sure that I would die for my local hospital, which is controlled by a for-profit corporation whose sole purpose is to pay high executive salaries.

Buckley's premise is absurd and blatently mis-stated. His premise is not whether you would die for oil, but rather would you kill for it.

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