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Originally posted by wig@Oct 14 2004, 06:01 PM
Hey Mike... I think you are right on with your last statement.
The chicken littles can keep running scared while the marketplace will dictate when technologies rae the most viable.
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One person's chicken little is another person's industrious squirrel hoarding nuts for the winter.
I will give you this, however - faith is a beautiful thing.
In a perfect world, you would be 100% correct. Unfortunately, we don't live in a perfect world.
I liken your assumption that we can depend upon markets alone to solve the energy crisis to the assumption that we could have waited for market forces to develop nulcear weapons before the controlled economies of the dictators did so.
The comparisson to the Manhattan Project is deliberate, btw ... a project of that magnitude could probably significantly reduce our dependence upon oil dramatically.
Of course, there are significant market forces that would do everything in their power to STOP that from happening, now, aren't there?