[raybbr]

Look at how much this will change our habits. If suddenly water was an issue (and it is in the western US where I live), people will change. My water bill runs $800/mo in the summer on the house I just bought. Guess what? I am going to have a landscaping firm change things.

That's a pretty immature analogy. Water is a natural resource that you literally cannot live without. Gas and oil are products of a process.

If you had said "I'm going to drill my own well so I don't have to rely on the water company." the analogy would have fit. But, to pay someone else to do your "innovation" is exactly the way we are doing things in the U.S. vis-a-vis petroleum energy.

[wireplay]

That is a pretty immature analysis. I was speaking of water as lawn watering, not sustinence.

For a commodity that is discretionary, this is an applicable analogy.