[FireTrack]

Oil cost is the point.

Actually, supply and demand is the point. Given an alternative to current energy resources, transportation means and so forth, it's conceivable that fossil fuel prices would plummet.

As you probably know, gasoline was a byproduct of the kerosene industry in the beginning and dumped in large pits because there was no market for the stuff. Btw, did you buy that $0.19 gallon gasoline in Alabama?

[RightWhale]

They are going to fight nuclear power until the day they are back to roasting rabbits on a spit on their cooking fire in their cave. They want the Golden Age and don't think about the other side: the Golden Age was an age of extreme scarcity.

[RightWhale]

We have until 2017 at the latest and that is if everything breaks in our favor. There is nothing that can be done to stop this. We are going off the cliff as early as 2007 no matter what. It's 30 years too late to do anything about it. We can't even afford to build enough windmills and solar panels now, and that will be impossible at any price in 10 years.