Wheels of Confusion

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It's not unusual for me to borrow a song title for a blog post. In this case, if you were wondering, it's one from Black Sabbath...

If you've been reading my Phil's Mythos blog, you're more up to date. You know about the Brubeck 2, and more than before about ultracapacitors...


Here's the thing:

While the oily stranglehold has us looking for alternatives, someone with inside knowledge is preaching to us on video about those who really rule the world -- and that they are keeping a mind-bendingly massive oil reserve secret.

Have you heard anyone talk about America's 'strategic oil reserves'? Turns out, the real strategy is to stay quiet about just how much oil is there, ready to tap and send down the pipeline, on Alaska's North Shore. Enough to supply us for 200 years, the former chaplain says.


WELL. That changes our outlook, doesn't it? Within the next decade, I personally predict that all such major secrets will be revealed...

Of course, electric vehicles will still be significantly more efficient -- but there will be far less pressure to convert existing vehicles. By the time the secret is revealed, however, I expect (and hope) that manufacturers worldwide will be offering full-electric vehicles as a complement to, if not in place of, their internal combustion and hybrid vehicles...

...and yes, progress continues. Ultracapacitors will soon eliminate electric vehicles' range issues.

For that matter, there are suppressed technologies that could have everyone who is anyone flitting about in 'flying saucers' within half a decade...


...but I digress. Maybe there's a silver lining here.

Shortage or no, we've been spurred to look for ways to use less oil. WHEN the secret of our vast reserves has been spread globally, we will already be well on our way.

What then?

It would make sense for automotive manufacturers to continue switching production over to all-electric vehicles until -- eventually -- internal combustion engines are no longer used for new vehicles. Things don't always make sense...

...but I think they will, more often, in the near future.


Meanwhile, Tellurian Motors remains no more than a daydream. Along with a few other daydreams, though, it will be featured in the novel I'm writing. Never fear; No matter how successful the novel is, I will still dream of building my own cars. Count on it.



Phil Smith
July 6/7, 2008

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