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From: "Brown, R Ken" <brownrk1@texaco.com> Subject: RE: Renewable Energy Stuff (was citizenship silliness) (fwd) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 13:30:05 -0500

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Now, back to more intersting discussion...

Definitely

I'm begining to lose track of this thread. Are we talking about:

Well if we really, really must go back there....;) What I was originaly looking to discuss was the impact of the injection of a globaly available, economical, and effective replacement of petroleum products on the international relationships. In particular the impact on places like Isreal, Iran, US, etc. The only real relevance this has to cypherpunks is from the economics side (why I've been trying to stay on topic with the economics comments in parens) and how such a shift of economic and industrial capabilites out of centralized and nationaly controlled geographies might impact these same countries ability to remain stable and the consequences of such. Take Kuwait for example, the impact there would be devistating. And like a domino effect (or want of a nail...) the repurcussions can be imagined to run up the food chain. It is related, though not directly, to an issue that I was engaged in several days ago about Gibson and the relationships of governments, individuals, large companies, technology development, etc. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------