From: Glenn Morton (glenn.morton@btinternet.com)
Date: Fri Nov 22 2002 - 12:43:51 EST
Bob DeHaan wrote:
>
>Hi Glenn,
>
>I don't know if you have access to SCIENCE NEWS. If you do you
>may have read
>the interesting article in the Nov. 16, 2002 number entitled
>"Hidden Costs:
>It takes much stuff to make on tiny chip." Here are a couple of
>paragraphs:
[snip]
I actually had a paragraph from that article in the oil post and decided to
remove it.
>
>-------------
>
>In the future shortage of oil, who will allocate the shrinking supplies to
>the various competing demands? Will the microchip industry have higher
>priority than agriculture or transportation or the military? Will
>there be
>brutal competition for the dwindling commodity, or will someone appoint an
>energy czar with authority to decide who gets how much?
I have said this before, the one with the largest army and most brutality
will get the last of the oil. It is the human way, tried and tested for
centuries. We have the largest army and probably will have for a long time.
The question is will we be brutal enough to get the oil or will others out
do us in brutality? I suspect that the military will get priority followed
by transportation, but that will depend on the whims of the leaders at the
time.
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