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To: Henry Volquardsen who wrote (2580)	9/12/2000 2:42:05 PM
From: Ahda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3536

Henry take that one step beyond. When you have an inflation ridden environment if cost to the storage tank decreases profit to the operator has to increase. During the gas war days there were gas stations on almost every major corner where i live now most have been ripped down and there are few. Nice to see you back on the board education time thanks to you.

To: Henry Volquardsen who wrote (2580)	9/12/2000 6:25:36 PM
From: Paul Berliner	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3536

Yes, we are definitely complacent about the availability of energy - down the road that may be a somewhat of a problem, if new hydrocarbons are not constantly explored for. I feel I should note, to the benefit of anyone that may not know, that yes we are depleting fossil fuels but the earth's supply of them is by no means finite. Over the last several years, advances in geological analysis indicate that new pockets of fossil fuels are constantly appearing where there were none previously. Geologists are now finding that certain areas adjacent to popular drilling areas but which were found to be dry holes 20 to 30 years ago are now yielding hydrocarbons. It now seems as though the earth either forms or replenishes pockets of hydrocarbons with regularity. I believe that we keep hearing that fossil fuel supply is finite only because the only ones talking about it are the treehuggers at Greenpeace and such. While I am certainly an advocate of a clean environment, the scare tactics these organizations use can be downright outlandish. The most popular conspiracy they have construed is that the ozone layer is finite, and that if we dont stop polluting the atmosphere with ozone-eating CFCs, then we will be in big trouble down the road. Yes, CFCs have been shown to swallow up ozone molecules, but that does not mean that ozone is finite. NOVA actually had a whole special on this (which, as usual, kicked ass). They re-enacted the whole process in a lab to prove that the ozone layer replenishes itself. It goes something like this: Ozone is O3, or three connected oxygen atoms. The earth's atmosphere is filled with both O3 and O2. When sunlight passes through the atmosphere, the powerful rays have been shown to constantly be separating the O2 molecules. Thus, you wind up with an atmosphere with a ton of O, O2 and O3 floating around. In the NOVA episode, the scientists then showed how a now single O then re-connects with a nearby O2 to form O3, or ozone. Thus, so long as the sun is shining, the ozone layer is constantly being replenished. It is a perfect universe, after all :)