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Originally posted by dd74
First of all, there is no Muslim oil. There's crude, baby crude, light sweet crude, or whatever, but no Muslim oil. I don't see my oil meter getting out of the dashboard and bowing east at 12-noon.
Second; all this "hype," because that's what it is, about alternative fuel sources is baloney. Know why? Humans, not just Americans, but humans are used to going to the gas station, filling up their tanks, paying and driving off. Anything else is beyond our comprehension and convenience, the ladder being much more important than the former.
That isn't to say we should not believe in alternative fuels. Still in all, they are a long way off. As for now, nothing matches the long term performance and cost of a conventional dino burner. It's been that way for close to 150 yrs., and at the slow-learning manner our species crawls along, it'll be that way for 150 more.
Not to say alt. fuels aren't important.
Just like J.R. Ewing once said: "Bobby, the world's been runnin' out of oil since oil was discovered..."
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Oh, that is sooo spot-on.
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"the quarter mile in 8.8"
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. ..yeah? sounds fast. Wanna race it against a 911, across the country? .. . how about across the State? Maybe across town? . . .maybe we can find a really small town.
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What do YOU do to improve the situation ?
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Well, Aurel, what we do is pay lots & lots of taxes so smart guys like you can find solutions before they're problems. Now get back to work! If you don't come up with something soon, we may need to invade some far-off land for their oil.
heh-heh.
Aurel, not to worry, the day will come when "alt energy sources" become viable. For now, those big hydro-carbons are the cheap way to go.
Wishing good funding, for you.