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> T > wrote:
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> > In article >,
> > says...
> > > In article >,
> > > T > wrote:
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> > > > So true, we waste an awful lot of potential energy. Look at the oil
> > > > cracking process, that little flame jet that you see at the tops of many
> > > > a refinery are pretty much methane or hydrogen burning off.
> > > >
> > > > http://science.howstuffworks.com/oil-refining.htm
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Then of course add in light from that big ball of fire in the sky that
> > > > we call the Sun, as well as tidal interractions between Earth and it's
> > > > Moon.
> > > >
> > > > There's a lot of energy out there just waiting to be taken.
> > >
> > > You forgot geothermal. :-)
> > >
> > > Hawaii could run itself off it's volcanoes with energy to spare.
> > >
> > > It's all about money...
> > >
> >
> > Of course it is. Just finished a very good book by Edwin Black titles
> > "Internal Combustion". He explains that electric vehicles were gaining
> > steam back in the late 19th and early 20th century and goes on to
> > explain how the big auto manufacturers like GM, and big oil like
> > Rockefeller's Standard Oil which lives on today as Exxon-Mobil.
>
> I have to wonder how good of a living one can make being a professional
> lobbyist.
>

You can do very nicely.

But I'm not a lobbyist, I just know how it works.