Posted by NEBeef on October 30, 2012 at 09:17:00 from (198.51.119.151):
In Reply to: USA Industrial edge posted by LAA on October 29, 2012 at 06:29:40:
The only way that fossil fuel prices will ever really fall back under supply and demand rules is when there is an alternative to them. Standard Oil was mentioned here earlier - J D Rockefeller made a lot of money with Standard OIl, but it was not selling fuel for autos - at first. What put Standard Oil in business and made Rockefeller rich was making kerosene for lighting. Kerosene pretty much put a bullet in what was left of the whaling industry. But Standard Oil itself was almost put out of business - by the invention of the electric light bulb - that put a bullet in the kerosene industry. Luckily for Rockefeller and Standard Oil (as well as the rest of the oil companies), the automobile came along and saved their a$$es, otherwise they'd be a footnote in history now.
So if you want to get oil/gas/diesel prices under control, then you need to truly reduce demand by developing a practical alternative. Won't be easy, especially with the oil companies fighting it all the way...
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