Ralph wrote:
dpb wrote:
Robatoy wrote:
On Nov 26, 3:54 pm, "J. Clarke" wrote:

How is "their behavior" "irresponsible, nay, short-lived"? If
you
are talking about consuming fuel, if everybody drove a mo-ped it
would still run out, just might take a little longer. There is
no
level of consumption that will result in the oil lasting forever.
Might be the great grandkids instead of the grandkids who have to
transition to a different fuel, but it's still going to happen.

Might as well blow it all out of our asses and get it over with,
huh? I tend to support the viewpoint that if we conserve, we might
buy ourselves enough time to find alternate solutions. ...

Tell that to the Chinese and the other developing nations --
whatever
changes in our actions can realistically make will so far in the
noise of their changes as to make no discernible difference.

Options are there, they're just not yet economically viable. When
they become so, then they'll take off.

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When does it become viably economical? When the oil companies are
squeezing the last drops out of the ground and charging us $50 a
gallon for gas?

It becomes economically viable when somebody can figure out how to
produce something else and get it to the consumer at a price point
less than that that is being charged for the current fuels. As to
what that price point will be, I'm not a professional energy industry
analyst--any number I came up with would be about as valid as rolling
a set of dice.

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