The end of America's dependence on oil is in sight. I know this is old news, but I keep getting these giddy, good time feelings every time I hear this kind of news.
And now I know why. It reminds me of a scene from Hudson Hawk. Anyone who has seen Hudson Hawk will hopefully remember the scene where Minerva is telling Hudson Hawk about her plan to flood the market with manufactured gold:
"It'll take a couple of years of steady production, but I'll flood the market with so much gold that gold itself, the foundation of all finance, will lose its meaning. Brokers, economists, and fellow entrepreneurs will drown in the saliva of their own nervous breakdowns. Markets will crash-crash. Financial Empires will crumble-crumble."
To see Lee Raymond et al drown in their greedy, oil-glazed, petrol jelly filled insides when they hear that oil is out and clean burning, American made alternatives are in...well, I want to live to be that number.
Ola Kizzle.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see you're finally posting.
ReplyDeleteI finally got both copies of your book... just FYI, direct from the publisher took four times as long as it took Amazon to get it to me, in case people ask how they should order.
Bonjour, Monsieur Kizzle.
ReplyDeleteI shall give some more later....
"anyone who has seen hudson hawk..."
ReplyDeletehmmm, that's a movie i think i have NEVER heard referenced.
Did you catch the Colbert Report where Ric Ocasek puts Todd Rundgren on notice?
ReplyDeleteThat was freakin hysterical.
ReplyDeleteRic Ocasek should TOTALLY put Rundgren on notice.
ReplyDeletePeak oil scares me. I've become quite the gardener, in response.
Hey...Leave Todd alone...oh wait, that new Cars thing is unsavory.
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, Rundgren is a genius.
Oh yeah. I almost forgot.
ReplyDeleteIt's not like we haven't seen this coming-The OPEC crisis in the 70's was our warning.
This country used to be about innovation, but somewhere along the way, industry got lazy, shortsighted, and certainly, the importance of petroleum in our lives had something to do with this. It was more important to keep folks feeding at the trough till they suck it dry than to try to find another trough.
The fact is now the auto industry is trying to sell you on old technology as cutting edge. Hybrid cars, ethanol burners, hell, this is over 40 years old.
I think that, if anybody is really serious about this, the government needs to nationalize oil, regulate it as a utility (really regulate it), and that way, we can force the automobile industry to really come up with some solutions. They are out there, but nobody has bothered to look, at least not those who build.