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Originally Posted by XPays
except there is a 300 yr supply of coal for gasification so that is enough time to research alternative fuels. the nice thing about coal gasification is that the process is a closed circuit as well so there is no extra issue in the production.
flood the market with it.
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We have more than enough time to do said research now. There isn't any hard numbers on when we're running out of oil, most say at least forty to fifty years before things even get remotely serious. It took them less than a decade to develop the atomic bomb (which took approx. $20 billion dollars to research and develop) because they had some of the greatest minds the world has ever known working on a true weapon of mass destruction. If similar minds today were paid $20 billion dollars you can't tell me they couldn't put their talents to good and find a true alternative, stable power source that doesn't involve fossil fuels.