Re: Road Rage Moron

Zebee Johnstone Wrote: 
> In aus.bicycle on Tue, 13 May 2008 06:54:07 +1000
> G-S <geoff@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Zebee Johnstone wrote:
> >>
> >> SOmething has to change given oil and water, but I can't see what
> will
> >> change. It won't be planned, and it won't be pretty and it won't be
> >> fun.
> >>
> >
> > Electric car manufacture will be expensive without cheap crude oil
> and
> > natural gas I suspect.
> 
> All manufacture will be.  There will be a lot of work done on making
> currently unviable coal and oil fields viable and a lot done on
> industrial power generation using other things.
> 
> The various processes will become more efficient and so will the end
> product.  How long it will take these efficiencies to get to the huge
> new markets of Africa and India and China is unknown.
> 
> My mother has been pondering an electric bicycle. She notes that she
> can't ride an electric bicycle on the footpath, but can drive one of
> those Gofer things.  An electric vehicle that can help keep her fitter
> and more mobile is less attractive than a motorised chair because it's
> less convenient.
> 
> WHere have we heard that before?
> 
> Zebee

Canada is already doing this by exploring the tar fields in the
northern territories


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jcjordan