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Posted by Ken Maltby on 08/30/06 22:01
"Ray S" <mail@mail.com> wrote in message
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> Ken Maltby wrote:
>
>>
>> If clean and efficient batteries, solar panels, bio fuels, whatever...,
>> could
>> be sold at a profit, there are plenty of those "most powerful" who would
>> be trying to earn that profit. If enough of those "everyone" thought the
>> current crop of electric vehicles were worth what they cost (even with
>> the subsidies), and bought them the makers would gladly make more to
>> sell. Once anyone is making a profit, all the other greedy terrible "most
>> powerful" will be trying to do the same. It's not Environmentalists or
>> any program they force the rest of us to pay for, that will put a large
>> number of electric cars on the road, it will be those greedy "most
>> powerful", trying to make a profit.
>>
>> Luck;
>> Ken
>
> If it was a matter of National Security to rid ourselves of foreign oil
> and let the oil barons return to pounding sand I'll bet the idea of
> whether it was immediately profitable would not enter into the
> equatio....oh, wait, it is...Darn, hmmmmm what else could be causing all
> this, oh crap, of course, if it wasn't hidden behind that mountain of oil
> exxon profit and if it were a snake, it would have bit me. Heck, you'd
> think that Cheney being so fat and all it would have been more obvious.
>
So you wouldn't expect Exxon to make any electric cars, but
then they don't make any cars now, do they? Yes, if Exxon were
to ignore a switch to some alternate fuel, and cling to oil only, they
would loose out, but they would change to follow some profitable
path.
The possibility that Exxon would suffer, is hardly going to stop
someone who could profit from supplying "cleaner" energy.
You left wing conspiracy theory nuts, who believe there are
rich and powerful "Barons" who have complete control over
the marketplace, are forgetting that there are plenty of "Baron
wantabees" out there who would love to knock over the
current "most powerful". It's the people who buy things, that
decide who is going to be your "Baron", if people bought
enough solar power and batteries, you might soon have your
"Electric Car Baron(s)". Then petrochemicals might become
the province of the current "oil barons" and we won't waste
the oil by just burning it.
Unless you are living in a commune in California or Taos New
Mexico, I expect you aren't so interested in the National
Security that you will give up driving your gas powered car, or
pay too much of a premium for an electric.
By the way switching to battery "powered" electric cars would
not do much to lower the need/demand for oil. You need to be
able to charge those batteries, and most people won't want to
pave their backyards with solar panels to have enough charge
potential to run a car every day. If they only drive a couple of
miles a week, they could get by with just covering their roof.
Most likely they would be using electricity off the utility grid.
(natural gas and diesel fueled generators in many places)
Luck;
Ken
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