On Dec 15, 2004, at 5:23 PM, Robert J. Chassell wrote:
I find it fascinating that neither they nor anyone else are talking of spending that amount of money on alternatives to fossil fuel. With tens of billions spent on development, I bet the price of alternatives would come down below the costs of fossil fuels (including the military costs of defending routes and such).
Speaking of military, what do we imagine will happen when fossil fuels get low enough in reserve that there just aren't enough to go around any more?
Either the world's armed forces will eventually grind to a stop, or there'll be a commitment to retooling, I'd imagine; meanwhile civilians wouldn't get any. Given that humans tend to be shortsighted, and given that the money-grubbing bastards that run most companies don't see past the end of the fiscal year, I bet there's been no quiet development of alternative energies at all.
Of course if there *has* been covert development, whichever company/government was doing it would have a commanding lead both in terms of profit and offensive/defensive power.
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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