Dave Hall wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:30:20PM -0600, Mark Bigland-Pritchard wrote:
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>>It isn't a substitute commodity. Uranium can only be used to generate
>>electricity (and only baseload at that); oil is mostly used for
>>transport or (in some locations) space heating.
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>The commodity is energy. True, oil can be used for other purposes (plastics,
>lubricants, cosmetics, etc.) The price of oil has not skyrocketed because
>the demand for plastic grocery bags is so high.
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My point is that you can't use uranium for most of the energy uses of oil.
Mark
Received on Thu Mar 29 08:43:45 2007
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