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To: TobagoJack who wrote (145917)2/8/2019 10:26:38 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217795
 
What people do. Centuries ago people worked at turning base metals into gold. You have changed the method and are turning oil into gold.

It's strange because the gold ends up unused sitting in another hole in the ground but now it's an expensive hole and with guards, accounting and worry about bandits, governments, mobs, economics, and net present value .

It seems odd that turning oil into gold to be stored permanently is a better use for the oil than turning it into a building with productive machinery, an aircraft and transport, or better still leave the oil in the ground and instead buy a DNA research team or graviton spin reversal comprehension project, or probabilistic electromagnetic + strong force + weak force + gravitational force acting on deuterium or tritium to turn water via fusion into high voltage electricity.

But people do all sorts that seems a good idea at the time. Such as labouring to carve, transport and erect giant stone moa is on Easter island. Maybe it was fun. I play golf and at the end of that I don't get even a little moai. No gold either though I burn petrol/oil to get there and back.

Mqurice