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- From: sgcraw@CS.ColoState.EDU (stewart crawford)
- Subject: Re: Emissions Inspections, etc.
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:13:20 GMT
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- In article <Jan22.185847.33362@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> freedman@cs.colostate.edu writes:
- >
- >you seem unconcerned about the environmental toll here. Anyways, if
- >supply dwindles, we'll just tear up the alaskan wildlife refuge to get
- >the oil out of there. We'll dig up the rest of the rocky mountains
- >to scrape all the coal out of there. We'll increase off shore drilling
- > ( etc... )
-
- obviously, this is a bleak scenario. but don't be to quick to project
- the present linearly into the future. when gas costs rise, either
- naturally or artifically, there are a whole raft of alternative energy
- technologies (conservation, solar, wind, biomass, etc.) waiting in the
- wings to come on-line. all that needs to happen is for the prices of
- gas to pass the level of these alternatives. alternative energy costs
- generally are in the $35-40/barrel equivalent range, with current market
- rates in the $20/barrel range.
-
- my (possibly whimsical) solution is to use all we have NOW, as fast
- as humanly possible (to deplete the supply-side), and assure (through
- legislative & environmental harrassment) that environmentally sensitive
- drilling will cost in the $50/barrel range, and POOF! the invisible hands
- of the free market will guide us to the (now cheaper) alternatives...
-
- i can alawys dream, can't i ???
-
- stew crawford.
-