Posted by Ray S on 08/30/06 20:20

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.

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