Because cancer is the cool disease now
There's a movie coming out called "Flash of Genius" starring Greg Kinnear which outlines some of the virtues of the patent system. It basically chronicled the story of the guy who invented the intermittent wiper and had his idea stolen by all of the major automakers. So, basically, patents are all bad.
It's all those damned red-stater tourists free aircraft wallpapers
It's easy to prove you wrong. It's called Supply and Demand. Say American oil companies produce 1 million barrels a day of oil, this is potentially 1 million barrels of oil OPEC won't sell, so what do they do, they lower their price. In turn, the American Oil companies will lower their price in order to sell their product. This is why competition in a free market is good for the consumer. Look what happened last week (or was it 2 weeks ago) when Bush removed the presidential ban on off shore drilling, the price dropped by $10. Why is that, because the oil market believes there will be more oil on the market. Less oil = higher price, more oil = lower price. What do car companies do when they have produced too many cars and need to sell them, they lower their price. Oil market isn't any different. Let em drill!
Not to detract from your excellent comment, but if I was going to have a kid, I would consider naming him Lysander Spooner because that is a ***** kick ass name.
Whenever I hear about electric cars, it feels like they're missing the point. They're spending so much time making the electric car, and this will stress power plants beyond belief. Either way, your car will use the same amount of energy, but pollute indirectly instead of directly, through the power grid. I think that electric car development needs to go hand-in-hand with widespread alternative energy adaption for the power grid.
Dude, I think you're doing it wrong...
Now this would be cool. I would want to have strong people on my boat though...
uhhhh, this is from last week.