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**art_fan_12** · 02-02-2006, 08:02 PM

Today there is no alternative fuel.
End of argument. You answered that yourself.
Yes, maybe perhaps in 40 or 50 years we will have fusion power, maybe not.
Thirty years ago we were told fusion power was 30 years in the future. It still is.
There is no alternative today.
Liberals take cheap shots at private enterprise all the while they enjoy all the benefits from it.
To say that BIG OIL is to blame and they are holding things back is highly stupid because Europe and Japan have less oil than we do and they have not come up with an alternative either. Japan has no fossil fuels and Europe not enough. Yet they have not come up with any alternative either.
Am I to believe Exxon is holding them back as well?
That is nonsense. If there were an alternative we would be using it.

While I don't agree with you totally, for once you are making sense. Fusion and/or fission are the only known alternatives. In both cases this is where we should be putting our money and our expertise.

In the case of fusion, more research into making it feasable.

in the case of fission. More research into making it safer-- in part by finding a way to make the byproducts

USABLE

instead of storing them for umpteen hundred years.

02-02-2006, 08:02 PM	#9
art_fan_12 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 465 Senior Member	Today there is no alternative fuel. End of argument. You answered that yourself. Yes, maybe perhaps in 40 or 50 years we will have fusion power, maybe not. Thirty years ago we were told fusion power was 30 years in the future. It still is. There is no alternative today. Liberals take cheap shots at private enterprise all the while they enjoy all the benefits from it. To say that BIG OIL is to blame and they are holding things back is highly stupid because Europe and Japan have less oil than we do and they have not come up with an alternative either. Japan has no fossil fuels and Europe not enough. Yet they have not come up with any alternative either. Am I to believe Exxon is holding them back as well? That is nonsense. If there were an alternative we would be using it. While I don't agree with you totally, for once you are making sense. Fusion and/or fission are the only known alternatives. In both cases this is where we should be putting our money and our expertise. In the case of fusion, more research into making it feasable. in the case of fission. More research into making it safer-- in part by finding a way to make the byproducts USABLE instead of storing them for umpteen hundred years.
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