On Thu, 20 May 2004 14:34:14 -0400, Tangorre, Michael wrote:
>I heard that patents for alternate engines and such were bought up by the
>big car manufacturers and such so they could determine when and if such
>vehicles came to be so their fortunes would not be ruined.
>
>Too bad we don't spend all the billions we are shoving over to Iraq on
>useful things like oil, alternate energy sources, education, porn filtering
>(plug for Mikey), etc... Kind of sad.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Lyons, Larry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 2:26 PM
>> To: CF-Community
>> Subject: RE: Oil Shortage
>>
>> That's been in the wings for quite some time, been predicted
>> since the early 70's. Basically we've wasted the last few
>> years when we could have been better developing alternatives,
>> such as methane (requires a new storage system but only a few
>> tweaks to engines), hydrogen, electric etc.
>>
>> Get used to riding your bicycle soon.
>>
>> larry
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Tangorre, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 2:16 PM
>> > To: CF-Community
>> > Subject: Oil Shortage
>> >
>> >
>> > This was an eye opener. I can see it now... 20 years from now, oil
>> > will be scarce and what is available will cost
>> > $19.99 a gallon.
>> >
>> > Yikes!
>> >
>> >
>> >
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