wow. youve got good gas prices. im in az. its 2.00 right now, expected to peak at 3.00
im sure the people in europe already paying about 5.00 a gallon hearts' bleed for us... On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:52:04 -0500, Jed Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This discussion of Roomba monsters is speculative. The threat of global > warming is probably real, but unfortunately people assume it will happen in > the distant future, and they are seldom inclined to worry about things that > will happen in 50 or a hundred years. What should frighten people here and > now is the cost of gasoline, which is expected to be $2.10 per gallon this > summer. Government and industry are outrageously irresponsible for not > funding cold fusion research under these circumstances. > > If a breakthrough is made in cold fusion, and that fact became generally > known, it will have an immediate impact on the cost of oil. The cost of a > commodity like oil is largely based on future expectations. If oil producers > think that cold fusion will begin to hurt their sales 10 or 20 years, they > will begin selling off their stocks even now, and they will lower their > prices. I think the transition would be much faster, and cold fusion would > begin to replace oil five years after the first practical device is > developed in the laboratory. > > - Jed > -- "Monsieur l'abb�, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write" Voltaire
