Date:         Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:30:43 -0700
Reply-To:     Slloth <slloth@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         Slloth <slloth@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: Fuel Prices
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Rico Dagastino wrote:
> Fuel prices are up about 50 cents this afternoon.  Our petroleum
> infrastructure in the gulf is vulnerable to storms and terrorism.
> Doesn't  it seem a
> little silly to do more offshore drilling in areas that are
> vulnerable  to such
> threats.  Maybe if we could get the oil companies to get their  hands
> off of
> our government we could develop alternative strategies for energy
> independence.
> Remember what GM and the tire companies did to the streetcar
> companies.  The
> game is still the same.
>
> Rico Dagastino
> Memphis,TN
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With out getting too "political".  I am surprised that technology has
been so slow to come up with a cost effective alternative to oil.  I did
see the video with the electric vanagon.
How possible is it to create a vanagon ( or any vehicle) that runs
almost exclusively on solar power?  Is the problem the the price of
solar power?
If I'm not mistaken many houses are totally run on solar power.

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