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To: stockman_scott who wrote (160829)	2/16/2009 3:25:37 AM
From: Wharf Rat	2 Recommendations Respond to of 362366

"we should take at least $5 billion from the stimulus bill and spend it on pure research to come up with something to replace oil. I mean a real replacement -- one that has all the benefits of oil and none of the downside" They already have it. It's called "electricity". Long term, actually intermediate, like 25 years, liquid fuels for private use will be gone. Might used compressed air to run yer car, tho. And we'll look back with regret that we sent all the feedstock for the plastics industry out the tailpipes of our cars. "burning oil for fuel is like burning a Picasso for heat" TOD Oh, and that won't put many people to work, which is the idea of this bill. Put the money in a transportation or climate bill. Like Boxer's.. Boxer pushes clean energy bill as another kind of stimulus kansascity.com Also,some of that is already being done by industry. BP gave Cal and UI 500M for biofuels. bp.com There's never enuf $, but that's not the purpose of this bill. == "we can then lease the technology to the rest of the world." Oooooohhhh...think of what we could be doing now if we had followed Carter's lead, instead of letting Raygun zap everything connected with alt en. Everything. Oh, well; the milk was spilled a long time ago. No use crying now.