Originally Posted by
sharkbait9
http:///forum/post/2640030
Yeah true. Oh well it's nice to think.
Here is the thing, you might buy into the conspiracy government in the back pockets of the oil industry.
One of the things you'll learn in game theory is that it is hard to get people to collude even if it is in their best interest.
Say you have one oil company sitting on this technology. And all the other majors don't have it. They now have a superior unique product that they could sell and differentiate themselves from the others. To top it off they don't know if anyone else has the product, if they aren't the first on the market they stand to possibly loose money because they weren't prepared to roll out the product. And will still continue to produce oil. Face it I'm not selling my gas car anytime soon.
If you have 4 major oil companies sitting there saying ok well we aren't going to release this product. If one of them releases the other three are screwed while the one who released it banks.
Say you are Ford and are sitting on the product, you stand to loose very little if you come out with a new technology and retooling your plants would be cheap. While if you wait you may be screwed because Chevy could claim they were first. There really is no reason for them not to release it.
That isn't considering the other topic considered, where is that DC voltage going to come from. Is more "pollution" going to be produced because of the added electricity than is produced refining and burning gas? Cost benefit analysis is soo needed when dealing with these so called "green" initiatives. Because alot of them are just assinine.
