“Water is also used in the manufacture of gasoline” does that mean I shouldn’t drink water? There are many innocuous products used as ingredients in dangerous products. This shouldn’t be used in the discussion concerning the safety of either product. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemopho...
So does building new production lines. Cost per unit can often sound higher because it’s the total cost including replacement parts and maintenance. You also have to bear in mind the cost of something going wrong when you don’t want it too. Like, you can hardly pop down the local...
As I reveal in The Last Oil Shock, the CIA was also well aware of Iraq’s unique value, having secretly paid for new maps of its petroleum geology to be drawn as early as 1998. Cheney also knew, fretting publicly about global oil depletion at a speech in London the following year, wh...
US has gone from leaded gasoline to unleaded. From analog TV to HDTV. Building codes have been evolving for over a century. The time and money argument from the Britannica article reminds me of the circular reasoning around issues such as: 1. Can't make computers with on...