On 12-May-2006, Goedjn wrote:

Because all of the alternative energy sources except arguably nuclear
are a bad economic bargin until petrol hits $4.50 a gallon.

And those alternatives have been dropping in price for decades as the technology
is improved, developed and volume of sales increases. The only reason that cars
are so cheap is that they've spent over a century getting the price down and the volume
up.

Putting subsidies in place that support big oil in preference to alternatives (the prior
Bush plan) works against the free market that allows alternatives to flourish. Most
Americans probably never heard of biodiesel until Bush talked about it.

Ethanol - I read this morning in the latest edition of The Economist that the US has
a $0.54/liter surcharge on imported Brazilian ethanol and a $0.51/liter tax break on
domestic ethanol. Them republicans shore luv th' free markit - and getting the taxpayer
to pay for it.

You will never move
a 3,000# chunk of metal with you inside it around the
country for less than $0.10 a mile again

High-powered car at high speed? - yes.

Sailboat? No.

Don't give up so easily :-)

Mike