X-Message-Number: 25634 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:36:16 -0500 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: CryoNet #25629 - #25633 For Mark Plus: Hardly good enough. First of all, it's an argument from authority. Second, oil may easily run out with no trouble to anyone at all: the problems depend on just how fast we can make or find substitute sources of power. Did Jim Rogers even look at this question? If you seriously want to argue that the lack of oil would make transport back to the US far too expensive, then you simply cannot look only at the price of oil. If its price rise is fast enough, we'll have at least some temporary problems. If its price rise is slow enough, we'll all end up with cars, trucks, and airlines powered by some other means. And it's easy to point to work on other means going on right now. I listed some in my last reply to you. Of course we're likely to also use fuel cells, because they're more efficient than simple combustion, but they are a better means to use one of the many other alternative fuels we may have, not a way to get power directly. Best wishes and long long life to all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25634