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<p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">[quote user="schlimm"]</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bucyrus: Not to be testy, but why do you insist that anyone (with any credentials) is talking about a totally non-oil system? Do you believe that shifted some percentage of transportation to a non-oil basis is foolish?</span></span></p> <div style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></div> <p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">[/quote]</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I assume people are talking about a non-oil system because that is what the original poster said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Granted, it would not be an instantaneous conversion to oil alternatives, but “non-oil” does mean <i>totally</i> non-oil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The objective of a non-oil system is all over the source material related to the topic started by the original poster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even the FRA cites the achievement of a non-oil system as the main justification for HSR.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do I believe that shifting some percentage of transportation to a non-oil basis is foolish?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It depends on the reason for doing so, and it depends on who is doing the shifting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it is done by the public sector as a sort of down payment on the entire conversion, and the stated purpose is to ultimately create a non-oil system, then yes, I do think it is foolish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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