Thread: ...Lesson for Nasa! US Airmail and Aviation
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Old May 22nd 06, 11:53 PM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.history,sci.space.station
Alan Anderson
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Default ...Lesson for Nasa! US Airmail and Aviation
(Eric Chomko) wrote:

You mean the infrastructure for oil already exists (i.e. refeineries,
travel routes, established business conteacts, etc.).

The infrastructure for turning oil into a convenient fuel is indeed
established. That's exactly *why* such fuel is available essentially
everywhere.

There isn't huge incentive to switch over to something like solar and wind
power that can't be as well measured as a barrel of oil.

I don't think it's a matter of measurement. Electricity is easily
measured, and is *actually* measured as it enters almost every home in
the United States of America. No, the disincentive to finding an
alternative to gasoline is mostly because gasoline is a portable and
reasonable energy-dense fluid.

Gasohol might be
an exception and will probably be in more demand given curent gas prices.

Gasohol is only an exception to your mischaracterization of the issue.
It's a very good example of something which emulates the reasons pure
fossil-fuel gasoline became so popular.