X-Message-Number: 24687 From: Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 08:33:15 EDT Subject: stability It is inherently obvious that stability of the political/economic environment is fundamental to cryonics success. One thing that has amazed me in the discusion of alternates to oil is a far easier path than that which has been proposed. Brazil in the 70's mandated that all its cars burn ethanol. Ethanol can also be used in PEM fuel cells (a technology that is finally being perfected). Further, the efficiency of ethanol production has brought the cost down to ~$0.30/gal, with feed stocks of nearly any organic substance. We already have the infrastructure to service it. Making oil worthless would realign the current oil dominated power base, and defund a majority of militants (for a while). James R Hughes Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24687