Re: The War We Refuse To Win

From: Paul Blay (ranma_at_saotome.demon.co.uk)
Date: 06/02/04 

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 16:46:26 +0100

"Henry Spencer" wrote ...
> In article <1086176861.455249@haldjas.folklore.ee>,
> Sander Vesik <sander@haldjas.folklore.ee> wrote:
> >> Forget that. If petroleum gets too expensive, we should run our cars
> >> on... gasoline. Produced via thermal depolymerization from garbage.
> >> Google on "turkey fuel."
> >
> >Remind me - where did you get the cache of money to build all that
> >infrastructure with?
>
> If fuel prices are allowed to rise as supply dwindles, there will be
> plenty of investment money for anything that promises cheaper sources.
> Only if you want to get "ahead of the curve", building capacity before
> it's needed, is there a funding problem.

True enough. The tricky bit (or at least /a/ tricky bit) is how steep that
curve will be at the end.

How much elasticity is there in the fossil-fuel oil market?