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i suspect any real alternative to oil is still a long way off the mass market and society has become too dependant on oil for many of our needs (transport seems to be no.1 though.) i heard many people say that if the price of oil went past to $50 mark they would start to seriously reconsider their transportation but with oil at $112 the same people are still paying for oil and nothing else has changed. oil can still go up quite a long way before people are really going to start feeling the pinch (a figure iŽll hazard is over $200.) the problem is everybody leaves it open ended. "iŽll reconsider my transport options" translates to realising there are no really viable alternatives other than to scale down on the size of the car. this doesnŽt replace the dependence on oil, just consumes a bit less so the problem remains, and as far as i can see will remain for a number of years yet.
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mother nature made the aeroplane, and the submarine sandwich, with the steady hands and dead eye of a remarkable sculptor.
she shed her mountain turning training wheels, for the convenience of the moving sidewalk, that delivers the magnetic monkey children through the mouth of impossible calendar clock, into the devil's manhole cauldron.
physics of a bicycle, isn't it remarkable?
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