Reply #103: Yeah, that works [View All]

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Except for the little problem that you can't roll out a radically new technology in quantities sufficient to take care of the entire country by the end of the current quarter.

Not that I am a peak oil proponent, but I can't imagine what Smirky and his board of directors are waiting for: they're oil men, *and* they're heads of state of the last superpower in the world, and they have all the access to all the best intelligence in the world-- and they still seem to think that ANWR will bring down the price of gas. That's not even ideology, that's fantasy, on a scale measured in hecTolkeins or kilOwlseys.

Of course, their second most obvious trait is secretiveness, so it's possible they've got TDP plants under construction on military bases, or inside the tanks of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. But if they were doing that, I'd like to be able to do my patriotic duty by separating the organics from the dead batteries in my own waste stream.

I'm reminded of a cartoon in the Boston alternative paper, a generation ago: guy in a suit, holding an apple core, saying "This isn't ecology any more, it's BUSINESS! Wanna see some of our samples?"