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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (619408)	9/7/2004 4:28:54 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

This is true, at a perpetual $50 a barrel. But I am not yet convinced that even with this assumption we could supplant oil with alternative fuels. In fact, I don't think it will even be close. I have experimented with this stuff and it is no panacea, I tell you. It is fraught with problems, maintenance and usage issues that I think would drive up costs unacceptably. Admittedly, I do not know enough to stand by this firmly. But I think we are very far away from models that are solid enough to allow us to level a fit argument against Bush's energy policy. We only hear about this stuff in election years. No one is really serious about it - not Bush and damned sho not Kerry. We will get serious about it when it works and when it produces a lot of money. Then we will all have a lot of fun - again - like we did in the 90's.