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To: Eric who wrote (75859)	4/3/2017 3:24:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Recommended By Brumar89 Thomas A Watson Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

Eric, you seem to think I'm a defender of fossil fuels. Your stuck brain is amusing to watch. <<I'll let you stick with ff's. Dwindling, getting ever more expensive to get out of the ground. Plus ff's are massively polluting.>> You are out of date. Gasoline and diesel vehicles WERE massively polluting 50 years ago, especially when there was lead in petrol. But since then, the emissions have gone to almost nothing and are not a problem of any significance. If you read BP's Statistical Review of World Energy, you will see that production has NOT been declining. Production costs have increased since the days of shoving a stick in the ground and finding SpindleTop, but production techniques such as horizontal drilling from land out to sea have made major gains in production per dollar. If production costs get too high, the impetus to use electric will increase. It's not a religious war Eric though you seem to think it's an ideological battle. It's just a very ordinary, prosaic, matter of what's the most economic thing to do. If diesel is best, no worries. If petrol is best for something else, fine. If electric superchargers are best for some application, no problem. If 7SSS makes sense for others, they'll do that. If CNG or LPG or methanol or ethanol or tallow ester or steam engines or fuel cells or hydrogen or capacitors or fusion reactors or linear motors or some other thing is best for some application then why worry? And AGW is NOT 'settled science' which is a laughable idea. A cursory understanding of the failed predictions shows just how unsettled "The Settled Science" is. You need some new slogans. The old failed ones are just a joke these days. Nobody takes "Settled Science" seriously now. Mqurice