[extropy-chat] cheap alcohol

[Samantha Atkins]

Does it make any difference to the celebration of rising oil and gas  
prices that it take a large amount of incompressible time and $$ to  
re-tool for alternate energy sources?  Are we happy with perhaps  
major economic suckage while the readjustment occurs?   I'm not.    
Waiting for the crunch to get bad enough is waiting much too long in  
terms of the amount of suffering and opportunity for attendant mischief.

- samantha

On Sep 21, 2005, at 5:08 AM, Emlyn wrote:

> On 21/09/05, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 08:27:47PM -0700, spike wrote:
>>
>>> US lawmakers made our sugar prices 3 times the
>>> global price, just as the EU made their motor
>>> fuel 3 times the global price.   I'd like to
>>>
>>
>> I don't. I want the fossil fuel to remain expensive, and to become
>> slowly, steadily, even more expensive. I just want the entire revenue
>> from fuel taxes to be spent on R&D for alternative fuels and damage
>> remediation.
>>
>>
>
> Amen, but don't bother with the R&D spending. The taxes on petrol can
> be increased and then squandered on something stupid, who cares? Maybe
> someone could even fund a social welfare program sometime :-)
>
> Just let petrol prices go sky high, and let the market do its job. So
> many alternative energy sources seem to struggle with trying to match
> mainstream sources in pricing, so they don't get the same work put
> into efficiency that a mainstream energy source gets, so they never
> get cheap - it's a catch 22. Which is solved only by pushing the price
> of the mainstream fuel sources though the roof for long enough to
> kickstart the alternative industries.
>
> --
> Emlyn
>
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