Subj : Re: Gas Crunch
To   : Deuce
From : richardw
Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 16:05:00

  Re: Re: Gas Crunch
  By: Deuce to Finnigann on Thu Sep 01 2005 12:34 pm

 >  > It may not be your problem but it is the worlds problem.
 > 
 > It's not all that remote... and there's no drilling involved.  The oil sand 
 > scooped up with a shovel, put into a dump truck and hauled to the processing
 > plant.  If you walk around, you can see and smell the oil.
 > 
 > But yes, some day, oil will run out.  At that time, some alternate method of
 > getting the stuff done will need to be already developed (my money is on
 > natural gas... it's already here, there's already a distribution system, it'
 > not an order of magnitude worse, and existing equipment can be retrofitted t
 > run on it).
 > 
 > If there's already a valid alternative (ie: Natural Gas) it's not a problem.
 > When gas becomes expensive enough to make it worth switching, people will
 > switch.  If the world still sees a problem, the world can solve it itself.  
 > don't see a problem at all.

Be careful Deuce, you're taking away the politians' scare tactics.

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