[FC] Re: Does this seem right? Boycott time????

[Merv Krull and or Loretta Prosser]

Definitely on the right track here Wild.... First person who figures out how 
to harvest hydrogen cheaply will be the new Bill Gates!
toodles
Merv Krull
Salmon Arm, BC
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From: <Wild8bill at aol.com>
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Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [FC] Re: Does this seem right? Boycott time????


>I think gas is cheap for what we get out of it. I don't WANT to spend more;
> but I think $5 a gallon isn't unreasonable if you think of all the 
> production
> and transportation costs involved in getting a gallon of gas to your local 
> gas
> station. Add to that all the taxes involved, and the operation and 
> maintenance
> of the gas station and you're talking real money. The utility that we as
> consumers get out of gas is pretty high; whether it be for business or 
> recreation.
> I know a lot of businesses that don't even factor in the cost of gas as 
> part
> of their operation because it's such a small percentage of their expenses. 
> I
> think that will all change now. We all know that petroleum products aren't
> going to last forever. I was told in grade school in the 70's that we 
> would run
> out of gas by 2010. That was wrong, but crude oil isn't infinite, and with 
> China
> becoming more industrialized and needing more crude oil, the world supply
> will dwindle pretty fast (if China attains the same usage that the USA 
> currently
> has per person, it alone will need 90 million barrels a day; current world
> production is only 70 million a day).
>
> So, doom and gloom aside, enjoy it while you can. Offset your personal gas
> cost by getting a 40+mpg car to do your errands, and drive the guzzler for
> recreation only. We got a brand new Scion XA for $13k that gets 45mpg, and 
> modern
> conveniences like air conditioning and power steering sure are nice! I 
> need a
> truck for my work, so I'm eying diesels.
>
> The future is electric motor driven vehicles. How we generate the 
> electricity
> to power them is still up in the air. Hybrids are nice because you 
> generate
> your own power and can actually drive across the country without plugging 
> in;
> but they still use gas. The major road block is electrical storage. We 
> need a
> Manhattan Project size effort to develop efficient electrical production 
> and
> storage (batteries). After we can generate and store all the power we 
> need, we
> can thumb our noses at OPEC. When they finally go dry, they'll all go back 
> to
> sheepherding as the major industry of their respective countries; just 
> like
> before oil was discovered.
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