On May 1, 8:06�pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On 1 May 2007 19:00:37 -0700, Chuck Gould
wrote:

There's a lot of talk at the club and elsewhere, however, among people
who will be sticking closer to home this year than in the past.

I think that's the wrong philosophy. *

My view is that we may very well be in the last decade of truly
affordable fuel.


Could be, and easily.

We can't imagine a life that doesn't revolve around internal
combustion engines, but at the same time our great or great-great
grandfathers would have scoffed if anybody had suggested that the era
of the horse was drawing to a close. Difference is, when the
automobile caught on it could do what the horse and buggy had done
only better, faster, and more conveniently. Maybe I lack sufficient
perception or imagination, but I can't see a better alternative than
ICE's being available and practical in time.