My .02 spliced in below...
At 04:49 PM 7/30/97 -0400, Trevor Boicey wrote:
>DWADE REINSCH wrote:
>> Let me agree with Greg and add my .02 worth. I believe, no matter how
>> much electric car/alternative fuel research is done, that we will
>> continue to use gasoline as our primary fuel until it is *completely*
>> gone.
>
Not quite, but close in my opinion. That reminds me of something a friend
of mine used to say. When he was tanking up his huge gas hog: Whats gas?
Who cares how much it costs, burn it up until it's gone. It's only gas,
you know, something better will come along.
> Long before it is completely gone, it will become expensive, and
>the world will migrate to something else by choice, such as
>electric vehicles.
>
If not electric but some other non pertoleum based gas/liquid that can
propel. What ever it might be. I'm not complelty sold on electrics.
> This reminds me of a similar discussion with vegetarians who
>say that if we keep eating meet, we'll all starve because
>to feed the cows takes so much farmland there will be a food
>shortage.
>
> In both cases, supply and demand laws of money will save
>the day. When gas becomes $15/liter electric will seem
>pretty darn good. And when beef is $45/kg tofu will
>be darn tasty.
>
>
It seems when gas goes up, so will the price of electricity still not
making it the lesser of two evils by a wide margin.
I don't think electric as a fix all of locomotion problems is the silver
bullet. There are still problems with it like Nuclear waste, oil, coal
burning as such. Everything we use now seems to carry a price tag of some
kind.
I think there needs to be a serious leap of technologies that can not use
fossile fuels and electricity to create a vehicle to propel ones self.
Maybe, ... Compressed air! Just a thought. But something else that
carries a lesser price tag of environment descruction should be in order.
I think it can be done. Just get the gready fuel/electricity mongers out
of the way and let the inventions come about.
Q - Who owns all 2 cycle gas powered lawn equipmnet, so I'm no
environmentalist.
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