RE: <All> Mo'Gas prices

["Avi Meron" <avi@cosmoslink.net>]

Al,
The guy you met and told you about the "supply of oil" is RIGHT...........
Amazing ain't it, it is an entirely fabricated misinformation about this
"running out bulshit" and always was, there are many, many ways to get oil
and not just from drilling in the ground!

Focus on the other issue, how you and I will get screwed by the oil
monopoly, not the "shortage crap".....

Keep in mind that I am not advocating unlimited use of oil.......if
alternatives can be used, they should be! The problem is extremely acute in
CA where the political and the industrial powers COMPLETELY refuse to take
that in effect (alternative public transportation). Contrary to what a lot
of us think (car nuts) there are many people (even in CA) who would
like/prefer a decent alternative mode of transportation.......

Please Al, don't fall into this "stupid trap" of "running out"......there is
a LIMITED supply of users (yes even if all of us drove "Suberbans") but
there is "less" of a limit how much money that can be extracted from
us............

Avi


-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net [mailto:owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net]
On Behalf Of apowell@ezlink.com
Sent:	Sunday, April 04, 1999 12:48 PM
To:	z-car@taex001.tamu.edu; Quattro@coimbra.ans.net
Subject:	<All> Mo'Gas prices

<Warning: semi-political content, aka: Opinion, contained herein>

I've been saying for years that gas is unrealistically cheap here in
the US...just look at the rest of the world.  I also don't expect that
to last long, so the current prices don't surprise me a bit.

Oil is, of course, a finite resource.  I expect prices to steadily
increase from now on...and frankly, I expect some wars when the
supply really gets short.  (I actually met a guy last summer who
swore that oil would last forever and we'll always be able to find all
we need.  I was kind to him and didn't bring up any subjects
requiring actual cognition...)

I think that finding alternative fuel sources (NOT electricity, which is
nuclear or coal-generated power in disguise) for individual
transportation is extremely important, but I don't think the US will
put enough funding into research to produce results until gas in the
US hits perhaps $2.50 per gallon and stays there.

In the meantime, I drive my Z, my Audi and my gas-guzzler truck
and enjoy them all.  As gas gets more expensive, I'll make my own
decisions about how much fuel I want to feed my transportation.
That's the 'Murrican way.
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Al Powell
Apowell@EZlink.com
1958 Fiat 1200 Spyder "Transformabile"
1983 Datsun 280ZXT
1990 Audi 200
http://www.ezlink.com/~powells/
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