<VV> E85 fuel (NO CORVAIR)

[Tony Underwood]

At 01:39 hours 02/24/2006, Mark Noakes wrote:
>actually the prediction for the price of a barrel of oil is multiple 
>hundreds of dollars within 5 years, which I assume is what all the 
>ethanol stir is about.



NOT if the hardline environ-extremists lighten up and allow drilling 
in US territories to divorce us from middle-east oil.   There's 
enough of it here in the North American continent to allow this... IF 
oil companies could get the go-ahead to go get it.    And it's likely 
this oil will sell for considerably much less than any three-figure 
number.   Add to this some efficient refineries to work with this 
untapped reserve of oil... to make the most of what we have her in 
our own yard.

And do this RIGHT NOW and not wait until it's too damned late.


Now, if people in High Places think that allowing the price of oil to 
rise to such a number in 5 years is somehow gonna be good for their 
pocketbooks... or good for their environmentalist agendas, they're 
sorely frigging delusional.

Our economy runs on petroleum and has for the last 80 
years.  Developing any sort of useful alternative that will actually 
WORK is gonna take decades and a whole lot of money.    To change 
over into something NOT dependent on petroleum in anything less than 
20+ years will leave this country in a Third World state with our 
economy a fraction of what it was, and cripple just about every part 
of what keeps us going now.


How long before another nation with strength and means (and a big 
supply of domestically available petroleum) would decide we're easy 
pickings and simply come over here and take over, just because they 
can?     And don't say that it's not gonna happen in such a scenario; 
there are nations who would love to do us in if they could... and if 
our country finds itself having to deal with oil costing hundreds of 
dollars per barrel, our economy is gonna fold and our strength with it.

It's that simple.

That's why it won't happen if the people in positions of power in 
this country have ANY brains at all, and stop catering to the PC gang 
and their radical environmentalist associates who blame the worlds 
problems on our tailpipe emissions, running around screaming about 
how the Alabama Clubfooted Field Newt is gonna die off if we drill in 
ANWR, or the Jersey Devil is doomed to extinction if anyone dares 
sample that oil off the coast of CA, etc ad nauseam.



tony..