OIL: The Real Outlook

Much has been written about Solar Power:

• Benefit to the environment

• Global Warming

• Saving money on Electric Bills

• Government Support

• Government Funding

• Tax Incentives.

• And so on…

However, all of this had lead to little, if any, advancement in the field.

To make my point:

Dateline: 1964

Science Class

Teacher: Mrs. Hohman

Report: Solar Power.

That was 50 years ago.  In the past 50 years, little or nothing has happened. The reason for failure is that Government pays for activity, not for accomplishment.

Now let’s take the business approach.  This should go a long way toward my explaining why Big Oil should invest in Solar Power.

There are some sound business fundamentals coming to the fore.

• Rising Demand Curve

• Declining Costs

• Innovation

• Economies to scale

• Revenue growth curve

• Tax incentives

• Increasing return on investment

In addition, Solar Power is Clean Energy.
 

• Less Government Regulation

• Less Government Push-back

• Less Consumer Push-back

• Less Global Push-back

There is an incentive to do business in a country with a Solar Power Industry. (Invest in it)

Solar Power is an easy sell in a country that does not have domestic oil production and/or does not have the money to import oil. (Invest in it.)

Solar Power is a very cost-effective source of Energy. (Invest in it.)

Sunlight is the fuel for Solar Power Generators.

Sunlight is

• Free

• Globally Available

• In abundant Supply

• Unregulated

• Not Subject to Embargo

• Not Subject to Supply and Demand.

Of Course, there are a few problems attached to Solar Power.

Sunlight is

• Free

• Globally Available

• In Abundant Supply

• Et. Seq.

Bottom Line?  If the input is Free, the output is Profitable. The more people use, the more you make.

Then there are the home grown revenue enhancement opportunities—Plastic.  Plastic, the by-product of the Petroleum industry. (Another reason that Oil will never go out of business.)

When Engineers apply their skills to plastics, it will become less necessary to defoliate the landscape. Also...

Plastic Girders will 

• Replace steel in countries where it is cost-prohibitive or impractical or impracticable to use steel.

• Replace wood where wood will suffer from mold, rot, warping, infestation, cracked and breaking.

• Replace wood and steel where cost and weight and logistics make assembly, dis-assembly, construction and reconstruction become compelling factors for using plastic products.

• Everything from Archimedes’s Screw to bring water to a higher level to pipes to irrigate fields can be made from plastic.

Warmest regards,

Slim

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