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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