Jed Rothwell wrote:

Edmund Storms wrote:

Because the oil companies are so rich and powerfull all over the world and because an effective alternate energy source would be so financially disruptive to every industry at first, a great effort will be made to resist any rapid change.


In the past, established industries often made tremendous efforts to stop rapid change, but they failed. The people who made and sailed sailing ships tried to keep the U.S. and British governments from subsidizing steam ships. Railroads

I've been thinking about the same thing. There are various technological changes which could be made to the vehicle fleet which would cut their gas usage in half. But would President Bush support the enabling legislation?


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