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To: Eric who wrote (78417)	7/25/2017 3:11:40 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

It has taken 30 years but my dream of photovoltaics taking over land transport looks finally to be a fact. Even as the price of oil is pushed down it won't displace photovoltaics or electric cars. Unlike previous price cuts for oil which did stymie alternative energy developments a cut to $10 a barrel will slow the conversion rate but not change electricity users back again. It will put competitors out of business. Bad news for the greedy OPEC found-wealth people. Good riddance. Less money for OPEC is less money for jihad. No electric car company is doing it right yet so the transition to electric will be slow until BP and Toyota or some combination figures out how to do battery recharging. When they do, the obsolescent rate in cars is going to be one of the major paradigm shifts. There is going to be carnage in the car making business, the car driver business aka taxis, the car owning business, the petrol and recharging business. This is an umpty $trillions transition. The big winners will be the people who want to go somewhere and have things delivered. The car makers who get it right will win bigly. Nearly all car makers will go bust. The car insurers will all go bust. The service stations that swap to 7SSS stations will win bigly if they get their timing right and work with the right car makers to make it happen. The number of cars will reduce by 90%. Not many people will own a car. Halo will win bigly too because people don't want to mess around with cables and the cost of Halo is low in the right place done right. The energy loss is trivial too. For example supermarkets could install Halo in carparks for convenient recharging while shopping. But it might be even more convenient and cheaper to swing by a 7SSS station when they message the car that they have cheap electricity for sale such as when the sun is shining and the batteries are full. Major paradigm shift happens. Mqurice