Text 12539, 66 rader
Skriven 2005-05-12 05:16:05 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
  Kommentar till text 12524 av VERN HUMPHREY (1:123/140)
Ärende: it's not just ANWR
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11 May 05 14:32, VERN HUMPHREY wrote to JOHN HULL:

 JH>> VH> I hardly think the auto industry is to blame here -- they make
 JH>> VH> money on NEW diesel engines and in modifying or providing 
 JH>> VH> modification parts kits for older engines.

 JH>>Sure they do.  But we're talking about technology that is 
 JH>>relatively the sam After market customizing gear is based on the 
 JH>>base technology of gas or dies engines using petro fuel.  All those 
 JH>>industries are interconnected - from th oil well at one end to the 
 JH>>vehicle manufacturer at the other, with a huge infrastructure in the 
 JH>>middle supplying parts, kits, rebuilds, etc.

 VH> Look at the switch from leaded to unleaded gas -- the automobile
 VH> industry reaped a profit there.

 JH>>Introduce a new technology that uses a cheap, biodegradable fuel 
 JH>>and you tak huge chunk of revenue away from the part of the chain 
 JH>>that finds, extracts, processes oil into petro-fuel.  Overnight, you 
 JH>>need a whole new infrastructu to create and generate the parts and 
 JH>>retro-fit kits and other stuff to suppo the new fuel.

 VH> That's the oil industry, not the automobile industry.

Works the same way with auto parts.

 VH> However, given our limited domestic resources for petroleum, a 
 VH> wise
 VH> company would begin a switch to bio-diesel, and keep those 
 VH> pipelines
 VH> full of cheap vegetable oil, instead of expensive foreign oil.

What limited resources?  If you combine all the sources in the US, we have
nearly as much, potentially, as the Saudis have.  And don't forget sources in
Canada, Mexico, and Russia that are still virtually untapped.  We're not in any
danger of running out of oil anytime soon.

 JH>>The big dogs of the industry won't want to lose all the revenue 
 JH>>from the current system while things transition to a new type of 
 JH>>setup.  Then there i the EPA considerations of a new type of fuel.

 VH> There won't be any loss of revenue.

 JH>>I agree with you that it is a potential boon as far as saving the 
 JH>>use of fos fuel and much of the cost of it, but I don't see it 
 JH>>happening with the kind plague-like spreading that we saw with 
 JH>>gasoline and the first cars.

 VH> It needs a push, but not much of one.  If we simply stopped 
 VH> subsidizing
 VH> those crops we DON'T need, that would be a powerful move in the 
 VH> right
 VH> direction.

Just curious, but what don't we need?  I would say if we start producing from
ALL our farmland, instead of paying farmers to let it lie fallow, we wouldn't
need to worry about growing what we may not need.  And redirect any surplus
into the fuel making arena instead of letting it rot in silos.

John 

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