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Originally Posted by cleanspeed1
Look at why we are here on ecomodder.com; a lot of us prior to the conditions getting this bad never cared about efficiency...
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I really don't think that's an accurate description of most of us here. Certainly not of me: although I grew up poor (and still prefer not to waste money) I'm not any more. If it was just a matter of money, I could easily afford to buy a Hummer or two, and keep the tank filled. But not only do I like small cars, and efficiency for its own sake, I'm far more driven by the externalities, from balance of trade to financing jihad to global warming. I'm quite willing to spend extra money to avoid these.
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Look at all the inventors that either got bought off or killed because they found an energy solution.
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Name one. You can't, because they're just a figment of paranoid fantasies, out of the same pocket as those 200 mpg carburetors.
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I'm talking about the class of people that operate in the 9 figure and beyond catagory, legacy money.
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Look up the Forbes list of the richest Americans, and you'll find that most of it is in fact new money. Many of the leaders are the founders of companies like Microsoft, Oracle, Google, and such. You have to go down to around #150 to find a name like Rockefeller that's obvious old-money wealth. Even people like Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey rank higher than that.