Please God, Let This Invention Work

[Lokrian]

I think you're all mistaking where the money is made. It's not in creating a sub par product. In cases like refrigerators, a/c's and so forth where there's no drawback to efficiency, industry is all too happy to give us efficiency. When people have to decide between fuel efficiency and being able to get their stuff from point a to point b all in one trip, people choose size often as not.

The trick is convincing you that your work is worth a whole lot less than theirs so that you happily give up what would be your fair share of the corporate profits, or even subsidizing huge industries with public monies while the administrators and owners of those companies make millions even if they run the thing into the dirt.

As for the oil industry, I have heard enough to believe there has been some price gauging lately, so I'm not in a mood to be an apologist for them, but by and large the same people will be well positioned to branch out into whatever alternative energy sources eventually find their ways to the market. They may be greedy, but there's no reason for them to be stupid where the development of new technology is concerned.