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To: Rock_nj who wrote (368320)	3/7/2003 7:19:15 PM
From: SecularBull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

That may not be quite true. They have the cash flow to develop practical alternative resources. There's a lot of money in developing such patents. ~SB~

To: Rock_nj who wrote (368320)	3/7/2003 7:53:07 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 769670

<The only reason the oil companies are in the alternative energy business is to make sure it doesn't come about too quickly. > False. It's simply that oil is cheaper than anything else. It's true to say though, that they lack imagination and tend to favour the status quo [like all businesses and governments]. But that's the usual simple stupidity, laziness, fear and 'too busy anyway', not conspiratorial malevolence. Mqurice [ex BP Oil alternative fuels developer and promoter] PS: I had fun once getting a service station attendant to put half a litre of water in the fuel tank, telling him it ran on water. It really ran on methanol, which the tank was full of [water and methanol mix well] and I'd really just wanted the 1 litre petrol [gasoline] tank in the bonnet [hood] filled, which was just to get it started and warmed up, which I told the guy. He was raving to the cashier that "It DOES run on water! I poured it in myself!!" That's probably where the rumours of cars that run on water come from. "The oil industry buys the plans and buries them". Hahahaah!!!