>
> Just by the way people are talking it's clear just about everyone --
> this includes engineers and scientists in industry and higher
> education, not just laymen on the street -- has some kind of mental
> blindness when it comes to energy costs.
>
> Liquid fuel has been increasing in cost by 30%% a year and there's no
> reason whatsoever to believe it won't continue increasing just as
> fast.
>
> Extrapolating 4 years from now: $3.60 X 1.3^4 = $3.60 X 2.85 = $10/
> gallon.
>
> If we don't want to spend humanity's last days on earth "liberating"
> oil from mideast despotisms then we need to start thinking about the
> basics, i. e., getting some food to eat, _now_.
>
> Want to get a clue as to the extent of the state of denial?
>
> Organize a key word search
onwww.uspto.gov.
>
> Grid electricity has been cheaper than liquid fuel for mechanical work
> for a year or so now for "stationary" applications yet you will not
> find _one single patent_ for grid powered electric "implement pivots"
> or "trolly tractors."
>
> _Any_ individual can take out a patent. The patent office doesn't
> require any background in _any_thing. You could be on death row and
> take out a patent.
>
> Now answer this question: How are the much greater hurdles of PR,
> politics, financing, implementing, etc. going to be solved when even
> the inventors at John Deer, International Harvestor and Cat are
> completely out of touch with energy reality?
>
> There's no reason to worry about your 401 K plan or polar bears or the
> [permanent-constantly worsening] Great Depression as long as there's
> no planning whatsoever for the dire energy situation.
>
> As it stands now we're on track to get put out of our misery by a
> nuclear exchange.
>
> Bret Cahill
>
> Quit bitchin. This is a great opportunity to spur alternrtives like we have
> not seen before. Everything should be on the table from Nuclear power, to
> wind, to biodiesel, to cellulostic ethanol, to solar, to whatever. And, may
> the best, most economical and least disruptive become standard. It's time
> now for America to become self sufficient in energy. If we fail to do it, we
> will be headed towards economic collapse because no economy can long absorb
> the the absurd runaway prices we are subjected to with petroleum.
> Furthermore it is folly to rely of unstable foreign sources for our energy
> needs. We must act now.
>
> Support candidates and policies who are in tune with our needs for
> alternative energy and who understand the grave nature of being subservent
> to foreign sources and what it is doing to our economy and standard of
> living. Watch out for naysayers and energy luddites who make dire
> predictions of impending doom and starvation if we pursue alternative
> energy. Such voices are from those who gain from high energy prices and want
> to keep them high. Follow the money and don't be fooled.
