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To: LindyBill who wrote (10207)	3/7/2007 4:38:50 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) of 36918

Lindy, my bet is we run out of people who want to buy oil before we run out of oil or gas and before there is so much in the atmosphere that it becomes a problem. We haven't even started on shifting taxation from income and sales taxes to pollution tax such as a carbon tax. Technological shifts to carbon avoidance has barely got going too. We are still right in the midst of the industrial revolution approach to energy = need more burn more dig more. That's how cheap it is. Yes, there's some move to alternatives such as nuclear reactors, insulation, away from incandescent bulbs and all sorts of things, but those moves are barely under way. The essential difference between people seems to be a doomster view versus an optimistic view. Given the million year history of human development, it is weird to me to think that that process is going to slow down, let alone stop. The steam engine is long gone. Internal combustion engines are on borrowed time. Power stations make electricity a LOT more efficiently than a hybrid vehicle can do. Watch for large technological shifts in myriad ways to continue apace. And I don't mean to biodiesel. Cyberspace beats biodiesel. Mqurice

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