Thread: The combustion engine destroyed the world

Why did Ford have to make a gas powered car? If I was a alive at that time I would have shot him. "Man that stuff stinks!! My lung, ahh, 'gun shot' and another 'gun shot' to make sure your idea is not known. What are you trying to do kill people" This world is on the brink of death due to humanities idea's. Why weren't we smart enough to know that energy was reusable 200 years ago? I figure if Ford could build a combustion engine, their smart arses could have figured of a way to reuse energy.

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I know it's too late to turn it around, there's nothing we can do, BP really screwed USA, and now only the strong will survive. Hold on to your seats folks.

You are way to over-dramatic.

You sound like some middle school twirp who knows nothing.

Henry Ford didn't invent the combustion engine, his claim to fam was mass production by way of the assembly line. He made it so it wasn't just the rich that could afford cars, the everyday working man could also afford one.

But I agree, I really hate those people that came up with the internal combustion engine, indoor plumbing, electricity, computers, indoor climate control. All those people should have been stoned to death.

I just noticed your from California.....soo...nevermind, I might as well have been talking to a frog.

Sure it's bad for the planet, BUT , and that is a big "but" , how can humanity evolve. It's not like free energy comes from the Sun ........ oh wait. Back then they didn't know all of this, they were trying to make theyr lives easier.I think those people don't deserve to "die", there should be a statue for each and every one.

Why weren't we smart enough to know that energy was reusable 200 years ago?

this question is in vain , I think this is the normal evolution of humanity .... we will probably use these cars for another generation ....
people didn't think much about people health and all this earth crap ... the inventions were stunning and shiny enough to blind their eyes about it's side effects on humanity and planet.... this could be eliminated now way more than past ... they "care" now .

Originally Posted by portable

this question is in vain , I think this is the normal evolution of humanity .... we will probably use these cars for another generation ....
people didn't think much about people health and all this earth crap ... the inventions were stunning and shiny enough to blind their eyes about it's side effects on humanity and planet.... this could be eliminated now way more than past ... they "care" now .

But m8 we can start thinking rt now for our future generations to come nd think of some great green peace technologies for saving our mother earth

The combustion engine destroyed the world

This is an overstatement. The world, in fact, is not destroyed and it cannot be destroyed by internal combustion engine at all.
Internal combustion engine changed human history and society, the contribution far outweigh the downside. It made long distance travel possible, it evolved the way how we do business.
Furthermore, we learn from our mistakes. There was no way for them to know that internal combustion engine will pollute the plant and the amount of oil was on earth was/is still unknow to us. Regarding to carbon emission, it is a unproven hypothesis, it is just like the global cooling everyone was so afraid of 30 years ago.
Anyway, we are slowing moving to renewable energy nowadays, and the technologies are actually based on internal combustion engine.
BP didn't screw USA. Do you have any idea how many politicians received champion funding from BP and other oil giant at election year? Even Obama called for more offshore drilling 2 months before BP incident happened. This is just one accident (man made or not) and oil drilling is financially motivated, you cannot blame internal combustion engine for it.

we are indeed moving towards renewable energy but its still gonna take awhile especially when oil is so profitable

Exxon Mobil posts $40.6 billion profit - Earnings- msnbc.com

While I agree the combustion engine most definitely did not destroy the earth I doubt did much to help the environment. Not to mention the numerous discrepancy's the conglomerate ford motors and Henry Ford has done to the world.

I don't recall the mans name but this man developed a car some 30+ years ago and to this day it has never had any mechanical malfunctions. When ford heard of this he immediately ruined the man sending him threats and destroying his work. The reason being cars are made to break. The average life expectancy of cars today are what? 5-7 years with tons of repair work? Only if you are lucky.

another discrepancy would be the man who created the windshield wiper. A teacher/professor. Long story short was ford was willing to pay him (to shut him up) but refused to publicly state they stole his patent. They ran the man into the ground and ended with his wife leaving him and him having to wait 12+ years just for his case to reach a court.

Then you look at humans who were so beyond the times -- one in particular a man; Tesla -- who was first commended as a genius then developed a source of energy that could not be controlled (otherwise referred to as free energy) and was immediately stopped and announced a fraud. He died alone in a 1 bedroom apartment with nothing but his work which was seized by the CIA shortly after his death.

Now back to the matter at hand. Ford. I don't deny that what ford did was possibly essential to human development but none of you should be able to deny that development could have been much further progressed if humans did not hold the silly pursuit of constantly more profit.

very well put ethicks.

i always found this to be very interesting: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rb_rDkwGnU]YouTube - Water Fuel Car[/ame].

Yes ethicks i totally agree with you on Tesla. This man was so far advanced and was way better than Thomas Edison yet so many more people have heard Edison than they have of Tesla even though they were both in the same time period and Tesla had far better accomplishments. For example edison as well all know invented the light bulb. Well the light bulb is extremely inefficient. It uses up alot of energy and most of it is wasted. Light bulbs could last forever but they dont. Tesla responded to this invention with his own invention of the neon light which can last for decades and can be bent in almost any shape. Then he triumphed over edisons dc with the widely adopted ac(current wars) that is standard today.