Lines to Remember

[jeriendhal]

For an eventual Red Vixen Adventures story.

"Deep Conservatives would argue that they're ideas aren't retrograde, but many of them can be characterized as thinking that the invention of the internal combustion engine may have been a bad idea..."

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[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

"Deep Conservatives would argue that their ideas aren't retrograde, but many of them can be characterized as thinking that the invention of the internal combustion engine may have been a bad idea..."

Actually, it was Al Gore – “Earth in the Balance” (1992) – who characterized the internal combustion engine as “a mortal threat … more deadly than that of any military enemy.”

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Well I'd regard coal fired plants as a bigger threat, but IC engines aren't doing us any favors at the moment.

IN the case of the foxen's industrial period, it was based on alcohol fuels, so the pollution danger wasn't as pressing. Deep Conservatives tend to rail against a lot of innovations...