Come on oddity, you're too smart to use this argument. A lot of it comes down to business and luck. Windows is arguably the inferior to linux, osx, os/2, beos, and freebsd, so why is it in 90% of all the computers in the world. Because of some very smart manuevering from Bill Gates. The Brazilian cars run off ethanol made from cane suger because that's their biggest industry. But ethanol can be made from lot's of things, wheat, beets, rice, wood, grasses, grains, corn cobs, straw, sawdust, grapes, even from waste! In the US ethanol is made from wheat. In France it's made from grapes. The technology is all there, it's very similar to making beer or wine. The major oil copanies will go under if we all adopt ethanol so it is in their best interest to stifle the technology. And they are very powerful. Ethanol isn't more widely adopted because of them. It's the same with marijuana. It isn't legalized because the tobacco and alcohol industries are so powerful. |
No, your argument is just too simplistic. Certainly in the UK this is not the case, the tobacco industry as no power here, smoking is banned everywhere, advertising of tobacco is banned everywhere. That is not the reason that marijuana is not legal. Same for alternate forms of energy, there aren't oil barons in dark glasses twisting the government's arm. I haven't looked into it in any depth, but there must be other factors involved than such a simplistic scenario. One big factor is that it's simply easier to carry on doing things the old way, .the infrastructure is already there.
I don't know what things are like in the US, but you paint quite a corrupt picture.