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To: TimF who wrote (1309)	8/8/2008 2:04:18 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) of 86355

Lower fuel costs (or lower costs for the equivilent in electricity not derived from a fuel), but probably not enough to make up for the difference in vehicle costs (at least not unless oil becomes much more expensive), let alone that and the additional infrastructure costs. A Prius has a 5 year pay back... very good. I expect the early premium for plug in hybrids and electric to be more, but also the fuel cost benefit. I would expect that within a few years of these coming on the market the payback will be the same as a hybrid. And the "cost of infrastructure (FWIW with electric)" will also be more than offset by declining costs of the oil infrastructure, including pipelines, fuel truck, gas stations, etc. And less flowing in to their efforts to fight terrorists, or to generally keep society stable. This could result in more terrorists. I'm not saying that funneling all of this money to the Middle East is on the net a good thing, or even that its a good thing in the more narrow area of dealing with terrorism, only that it isn't clearly a bad thing in the more narrow area of dealing with terrorism. BS argument. Unlikely. Highly likely we would be much less involved in the ME. You fail to mention the deficit.

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