From: Kai Becker (kmb@kai-m-becker.de)
Date: Sun Feb 02 2003 - 08:01:14 MST
Am Samstag, 1. Februar 2003 20:37 schrieb Rafal Smigrodzki:
> ### If gas costs .85 $/gallon, I can drive to visit my wife in
> Pittsburgh and still have money left to invest in a high-tech company.
> If you increase the cost of gas to 5 $/gallon, as in Europe, I won't be
> able to drive 700 miles a week,
Pardon, but I assume that your real interest is not to buy oil/gas, but
to travel these 700 miles/week in a comfortable, self-determined way,
isn't it? So, the real problem is not the price of oil/gas, but the
missing alternatives to todays cars for transportation, which use a) a
large amount of b) oil/gas, which is c) neither unlimited nor d) produced
in an ideal free market.
I'd set on (a) first, and on developing (b) and (c), which would probably
solve (d) as a result (iff the b/c-solution doesn't produce another
single factor dependency).
Kai
-- == Kai M. Becker == kmb@kai-m-becker.de == Bremen, Germany == "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced"
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