Bob,
It is hard to say, many subsidies are useless and to corporations, they should be replaced with meaningful ones. At the end it must be a restructuring process. Otherwise the losses are going to be too high and it is not resources, financial and human, to create completely new structure from scratch. The restructured solution must by nature be diversified and flexible, it is the only way to move fast enough. The attempts to force and speed up a hydrogen economy are only signs of desperation. The technologies are not there to support it and will not be there for the next 20 years, if ever. If you look at Brazil, Germany, Sweden, Denmark and a couple of other countries (maybe also California), US could form a strong and meaningful energy plan, which handles both energy conservation, alternative energy sources and the transition. Even I could write an outline for an energy plan, that is better than what US have today. The most difficult is that US have waited too long to really address it, the time lines on almost all issues are critical now. The cost of the SUV tax breaks, raised from $30,000 up to $100,000 by Bush, is enough to give away VW Lupo class vehicles to qualified users instead. Today it is a mess of corruption and lobbying for more. It is very difficult to see any clear energy policies. other than the military ones, who are there to secure supplies, which are mathematically impossible in the long run. It will be difficult for everybody to secure large supplies in the future. With China and others competing for them now, it will not be enough and increasingly more difficult to secure at low cost. Hakan At 21:19 03/03/2004, you wrote: >If I were the energy dictator, I would first level the field by stopping >all energy subsidies. Renewable fuels will never catch up in the area >of subsidization with the breaks given to the fossil fuel industry. > > >murdoch wrote: > > I have been turning over in my head some attempts at constructive > > ideas for the (hopefully) incoming President Kerry. > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------ >Bob Allen,<http://ozarker.org/bob>http://ozarker.org/bob >------------------------------------------------------------------ >----------------------------------------------------------------- >The modern conservative is engaged in one of Man's oldest exercises >in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral >justification for selfishness JKG >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > >--- >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
