Comments on: The economy and low gas prices derail another project http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/02/09/the-economy-and-low-gas-prices-derail-another-project/ Top Technology news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:30:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: save money on gas http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/02/09/the-economy-and-low-gas-prices-derail-another-project/comment-page-1/#comment-158557 save money on gas Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:24:28 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/02/09/the-economy-and-low-gas-prices-derail-another-project/#comment-158557 Well, when the government has to offer so many subsidies just to get this 'eco friendly' gas to be produced it's a risk, especially with a slow economy. They need to make this stuff more cost effective. Well, when the government has to offer so many subsidies just to get this ‘eco friendly’ gas to be produced it’s a risk, especially with a slow economy. They need to make this stuff more cost effective.

]]> By: ken http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/02/09/the-economy-and-low-gas-prices-derail-another-project/comment-page-1/#comment-158468 ken Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:02:11 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/02/09/the-economy-and-low-gas-prices-derail-another-project/#comment-158468 What you say is true, fossil fuel is cheap enough now that it is difficult to justify building out the needed infrastructure and delivery mechanisms. I don't know that is a bad result. It seems a bit myopic to bemoan lower oil prices because it makes more costly and unproven tech unattractive. The answer is to bring the cost of biofuel in line with current fossil fuel. I seriously doubt you will see oil shooting up any day now. Global economic conditions and the lower demand currently makes it unlikely. People are pretty happy with more reasonable fossil fuel costs. There is little infrastructure in place to disperse alternative sources. Higher fuel costs also drive efficiencies in utilizing dead dinosaur juice. Appliances, cars, insulators, lubrication etc... have all become more efficient. We are eerily in the same environment now as 1980. A severe contraction in the US economy and cheaper oil. It adds up to the resources being used to jump start the economy and puts alternative energy way down the list of priority. What you say is true, fossil fuel is cheap enough now that it is difficult to justify building out the needed infrastructure and delivery mechanisms.

I don’t know that is a bad result. It seems a bit myopic to bemoan lower oil prices because it makes more costly and unproven tech unattractive. The answer is to bring the cost of biofuel in line with current fossil fuel.

I seriously doubt you will see oil shooting up any day now. Global economic conditions and the lower demand currently makes it unlikely.

People are pretty happy with more reasonable fossil fuel costs. There is little infrastructure in place to disperse alternative sources.

Higher fuel costs also drive efficiencies in utilizing dead dinosaur juice. Appliances, cars, insulators, lubrication etc… have all become more efficient.

We are eerily in the same environment now as 1980. A severe contraction in the US economy and cheaper oil. It adds up to the resources being used to jump start the economy and puts alternative energy way down the list of priority.

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