Harry Veeder wrote: > 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 >
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