The way I see it, We may not have to concern ourselves with the oil crisis once we've gone beyond the 50% of reserves mark, which is scheduled for 2010 according to some. Land vehicles may become a very high risk investment, not just for the inevitable soaring cost of petrol, but for the problem of having enough smooth surfaces across which to negotiate. I'm referring here to what is known as earth quakes, which I believe, and did well before theorists pro- claimed it a possibility, that oil should be left in the ground for the tectonic plates to glide along.
Keith, in casting out for the great new product that will save the economy, had mentioned personal aerial craft as a possible, yet dim hope because of its enormous start-up costs. I don't think he was off the mark at all, given that T.V.'s and computers were once expensive. Of course, the technology in such a venture is key to broad distribution. "Over unity" energy itself will be another great new product, and crucial to saving the masses. I suspect that the time for release of the new technologies is imminent, that even those who bought out the inventors in order to suppress this stuff are looking into the near future of dystopia, saying, we're not going to be around to be able to spend our oil money; time to release the new technologies and make even more money! Does anyone remember Tesla? I don't know if any of you have heard of the Disclosure Project, but for an interesting read, and a good look into alternative energy papers, check out http://www.disclosureproject.org http://www.seaspower.com/Papers.htm and http://www.seaspower.com/Outsidethebox-Loder.htm Natalia --- Original Message ----- From: Keith Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ray Evans Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 12:08 AM Subject: Re: [Futurework] Hitherto, a Ricardian free trader > Ray, > > At 20:53 03/08/2003 -0400, you wrote: > >I have argued from my beginnings on this list that the psycho/economic roots > >of industrialism and what that means as work, in the Western sense, was > >incomplete, bordered on failure and demanded a serious look by serious > >minds. It seems you now have begun to question the logic that you have > >espoused in the past. I congratulate you on that and encourage the > >continued exploration of such with your considerable intellect. As such I > >hold great optimism that we will have some very good posts from Bath in the > >future. > > I'm not questioning the logic that I have espoused previously. All I am > saying is that the free trade question has become relatively trivial > compared with the serious decline of fossil fuels which will shortly be > upon us -- with no obvious replacement energy technology in sight at > present. Free trade or not, South America, Africa, Central Europe and the > Middle East will not be able to join the developed world's economic network > because there isn't the energy to sustain them as well as us. America, > China and western Europe's industrial system might well fail but not before > all the other blocs have failed first. > > KH > Keith Hudson, 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath, England > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
