From: Spike Jones (spike66@attglobal.net)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2001 - 21:12:20 MDT
Anne Marie Tobias wrote:
> I'm not saying the fuel guys are evil... I'm saying their greedy...
I agree. Greed is good. Greed motivates people to do great things.
Without greed, we are just another species of mammal.
> they're holding all the fossil fuel cards... why would they ever, ever let any
> body draw a renewable fuel card... that would be the beginning of
> the end of their game.
Very perceptive of you, and that is why the price of fossil fuels
will not get too much higher: because if it does gets very much higher,
it makes renewable alternatives economically attractive, and once that
line is crossed, that approximately 8-10% payoff is reached, the
infrastructure gets built, then it continues to pump out energy indefinitely,
energy that the establishment doesn't get paid for. This will be sooooo
cooooool.
> How would you even dream of putting up the
> hundreds of billions of dollars required to compete against the fuel
> infrastructure that already exists...
By making it a good investment. Currently it isn't. May soon be.
> nobody is gonna beat a path to
> your door... not if you have free energy... not if you have to tangle
> with the existing oils, coal, and gas cartels... no way... no how.
You need not tangle with them. If your alternate energy source is
cheaper than theirs, you eat their lunch. If not, they eat yours. No
tangling necessary.
> Hell these guys kill their own like flies drilling for the stuff...
They won't kill you. Thats the one thing governments are good
for: keeping your business competitors from physically slaying
you.
The sitch isn't nearly as dire as you described, Marie. This is a really
cool time to be alive! We will watch as fossil fuel transitions to
being more expensive than a lot of really cool alternatives. We
will watch as the power generation industry is decentralized. We
will see capitalism do what capitalism does best. Stay tuned! spike
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