Re: Oscar irony

[Lance Bachelder] "But it's sitting in a junkyard now, replaced by a hybrid that has just enough battery power to get to the office but you better bring your extension cord. "

Given.

The problem is if oil really does continue to suck more and more money out of your life, you look around and eventually ask why everybody ignored supporting an alternative development path.

Right now, every gas station is still pumping. And while we might not "like" prices pushing up towards $5 a gallon - overall we tolerate it.

But when I was in my 20s I remember my first trip to England and seeing gas prices two and a half times what I was accustomed to back at home. The price of the asset seemed totally decoupled from the costs of production. I suspect it still is. So having an alternate game grow up and become a viable choice sounds pretty good, even if here in the development phase, I can't own and operate an electric vehicle at significantly less than the cost of a traditional one.

The only thing you can't argue with is that nobody's making any additional fossil fuels any more. So while it might not be in my lifetime, there will come a day when we'd better have some kind of alternatives in place - or our society will face a crisis - whether it's me, my kid, or some future grandkids.

Heck, If I ran an oil company, I'd try to extract maximum value in these years too - then when the wall gets closer, I'll be sitting on enough bank to buy and control whatever replaces it.

That just makes sense.

If you can see the problem coming, intelligent people usually prefer to start solving it before it becomes critical - but that doesn't mean there's only one "right" way to solve it.

And having more alternatives is typically better than having fewer.

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