Indeed my father, who is a farmer in Portugal, is feeling the effects of
this, last time I was there he was telling me how the price of the feed
for is animals had gone higher do to the demand for fuel production.
What you guys fail to see in my opinion is that this so bad way we live,
is the same that supports the level of life that we have, that lets us
even have time to think about saving the environment. So wishing that
the price of oil goes up to force change to happen, is the same as to
wish that a lot of people go out of business, and that the world economy
just goes into meltdown. In those circumstances I bet the last thing on
anybody's minds will be the environment.
Best regards
		Luis
  



-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf
Of William "Chops" Westfield
Sent: 03 December 2007 05:02
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [OT] Perfect electric hybrid car specs


On Dec 2, 2007, at 6:28 PM, Xiaofan Chen wrote:

> The problem is that oil is still too cheap (hopefully it will go up  
> to US$300 per barrel in the near future --Disclaim: I do not have a  
> car)

You're very cruel.  It won't just be wasteful Americans with SUVs who  
end up suffering if (when) that happens.  There are already people  
concerned about the social outcomes of surplus corn (or perhaps not  
so surplus) getting turned into ethanol for fuel instead of feeding  
people who are hungry.

BillW

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