> gMoney wrote: > I don't see how you say that conservation delays defining the root > cause....isn't over consumption one of the root causes???? >
NO! Economics 101: supply & demand. Consumption is what it is. We need energy and eventually supply and demand will stabilize; the only question is how much pain we'll endure during the transition. Using hybrids to try to limit consumption (which is a pipe dream, but anyway) will simply create all kinds of pain. Why? because the root cause is a permanent drop in supply of petroleum based oil. There is only 1 solution to that problem: figure out a way to use a different energy supply. Since necessity is the mother of invention, the faster oil runs out, the faster we'll get a solution - and that solution will look like or be bio-diesel. Why? Because you have to change the fewest number of things to use it: you can use the same engines, the same distribution networks, and the same refineries. Electric cars require electricity. That comes from coal right now. Nukes are 15-20 years away if we could ever agree to start to build them which we can't. So the only solution is to burn something else. Ethanol is inefficient and derivitive from food. bio-diesel isn't. Winner: bio-diesel. Hybrids are a fad and a distraction. "energy conservation" is like being unemployed and running out of money 1% slower. You still end up broke and when you get there you have no money to invest in finding a job. If, however, you take the money you have now and find a new job you will never run out of money. Thus, conservation is crap. So I'm doing my part to burn as much gas as possible. 14mpg baby! W00T! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:257855 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
