[glennaro]

I sure wish we would stop calling these “fossil fuels” ... they are not.

[DiogenesLamp]

In terms of the economic power derived from each, Slavery was indeed kin to Fossil Fuels. It was that much of their economic engine at the time.

Immoral or not, if you tell someone that they are going to have to give up a massive source of income, they are going to look at you like you're crazy.

[Olog-hai]

David Suzuki wa baka desu.

[Paladin2]

Kick-start him and drive him out of town....

[GraceG]

Fossil fuels helped end slavery in the united states and world wide. (well the parts of the world that was not Islamic )

While fossil fuel usage didn’t become widespread until the early 1900s, the usage of machines that predated them led to the automation of many jobs world wide that made slavery economically unfeasible. The machinery of the industrial revolution started steam and coal powered was easily adaptable to fossil fuels thus preventing a slide back to the usage of slaves as a viable economic model.

[familyop]

"Abundant, affordable, reliable energy from fossil fuels has lifted billions of people in the developed world out of poverty and the high rates of disease and premature death that invariably accompany it."

And enslaved and impoverished tens of millions of Americans with cheap freight fuel for imports. We'll see the beginning of the end of the misery in a little over a year with transportation costs (fuel) rising from there and production much more distributed afterwards.

[familyop]

Methane cometh from the bowels of distant planets. Therefore, we should fear monsters from outer space. ;-)

[maddogtiger]

blacks should thank God their ancestors were dragged out of that hellhole.

[Timocrat]

Everything you need to know about David Suzuki:Suzuki He's a congenital idiot that nothing about the science of climate. He doesn't even know the main data sets on which the hoax of global warming is based.

[aquila48]

“In a recent interview, Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki compared the fossil fuel industry with American Southern slavery.”

To write a serious article to refute such a garbage statement is to dignify it. Better bury it in the landfill where it belongs.

[Impy]

His name must not have been in the news lately, he wanted some attention. Assclown.