http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/04/staterun_compan-2.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:46:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/04/staterun_compan-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-5235 Jim Collins Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:32:33 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/04/staterun_compan-2.html#comment-5235 <p>So what happens when the bottom falls out of the oil market? It is going to happen, last year convinced me of that. When the oil prices peaked last year it kick started the "alternative energy" boom. For how many years were sources of alternative energy discarded because they were not cost effective, when compaired to oil? There is even serious talk about building new Nuke plants in the US, something that would have been unheard of 10 years ago. One thing about the US being the world's biggest consumer of energy, it also gives the US the biggest amount of control over energy issues.</p> So what happens when the bottom falls out of the oil market? It is going to happen, last year convinced me of that. When the oil prices peaked last year it kick started the “alternative energy” boom. For how many years were sources of alternative energy discarded because they were not cost effective, when compaired to oil? There is even serious talk about building new Nuke plants in the US, something that would have been unheard of 10 years ago. One thing about the US being the world’s biggest consumer of energy, it also gives the US the biggest amount of control over energy issues.

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