Grimer wrote: > At 02:08 am 12/05/2006 -0500, you wrote: > >> IMO, as long as work, money, and energy consumption, are culturally linked >> the "too cheap to meter" dream will never be realised. >> Even if energy becomes 100 times less expensive, we, as individuals, >> will find ourselves consuming 100 times more energy. >> >> Harry > > Not so Harry. There are limits to the amount one can consume, whether > it be food, drink or entertainment. Water is "too cheap to meter", in > Britain at any rate. I have a free bus pass for the whole of Greater > London but the maximum I could use it would be 24 hours a day. > > Frank >
Certainly consumption of food and drink is limited, but you are overlooking advances in technology, which allow one to travel faster and faster, move more and more rock, build higher and higher, etc... "We wanted our wedding to be very special. So we had it on Mars, in a full size replica of the Taj Mahal which we built ourselves." Harry
