Ever heard of global warming?
Using all the oil/gas/coal is not an option.
Also, depriving us of petroleum products is not the best idea.

Or we could just wait till we don't have any cheap oil left.
This is really scary, it will happen, but nobody cares.

And there always will be oil on earth, and this exponential growth will never be a problem in our finite world.
Amen.

My most productive hours are from 10pm till midnight, at home.
Everybody else is sleeping, nobody calls, no colleague can bother me.
I listen to a CD I've listen to a few hundred times, and I work in a very focused manner on important new features or bugfixes.
Before going to bed, I send a short email to my boss describing what I did.

After about a week, we have our usual meeting, during which colleagues say "we should do this and this, it'll probably take a month or two", with the hope that they won't be the ones having to do it. I just tell them "No problem, I did it yesterday night". Everybody's happy.
I tell my boss I'd like to take my day off, and go skateboarding.

So for me, it began by working the usual 9 to 5, adding some very productive overtime, and showing my colleagues and boss that I don't actually need the 9 to 5.

In the end, none of the responsible people will be punished.

Not only that, but Mario Draghi (former managing director of Goldman Sachs) is now the president of the European Central Bank.
But it's okay, because

the deals were "undertaken before my joining Goldman Sachs [and] I had nothing to do with them"

This unelected thief has more power than many european presidents.

+1
Pretty please, new horizons/NASA?

I always loose my mind when I see idiots writing rouge instead of rogue.
It really effects me deeply.

Wait, what?

My GF got post-partum psychosis 4 years ago.
She spent 2.5 years in the hospital, trying new medications combination (including electroshock therapy and strong, old drugs that are kinda forbidden now) every 2 month.
She's healthy now and we're a happy "normal" family again.
But oh boy, we went through hell, and I'm happy to have forgotten half of those damn symptoms and side effects that we've seen during those years. E.g. :
* Hearing friendly voices that advice her to jump from a bridge
* Forgetting her name or the city we live in
* Parkinson symptoms that'd make Muhammad Ali proud
* Stealing my mobile phone, because hers was allegedly bugged
* Looking like a zombie
* Living in a separate universe with no link whatsoever to ours
* Leaving our daughter (6 months old) alone at the mall

I still cannot believe she's perfectly fine now.

Sorry, found it :
http://stackoverflow.com/quest...

I already used it, but forgot it since.

For that amount of money, you could install photovoltaic panels, solar thermal and a water recuperation system on a significant portion of every roof on the planet.
As a bonus, the USA would become a beloved nation and wouldn't need any fighter jet to defend itself.

Pardon my ignorance, but what does "$@" do?
It's not very googleable.

I tend to agree. But it took me a long time to realize just how much energy is contained in one litre of oil. Before that, I also thought that everything was possible for transport.

The burden of proof is on you.
I showed that typical airplanes would need 500m2 of pv panels per passenger in order to fly, even with a perfect propulsion system and maximum solar irradiance.
You need to describe a functional airplane that somehow needs about 10 or 100 times less pv panels to fly.

there is nothing specifying its shape, size, battery capacity or even propulsion system.

Except laws of thermodynamics, that is.