IMHO If you sold oil and had all your money into it and where reaping HUGE profits, I doubt you would encourage electric cars which would lower your oil profits. It doesn't make sense to sell the batteries to make money when it would be hurting your oil profits. What I think you (ie. the oilies) would do is sell every last drop of oil there was to be had then release the battery technology and keep on making profits, perhaps then gouging the price if the batteries ...Oh because there is no more oil left... Otherwise you'd be competing with yourself. D² & 6530 Dave Delman From: "Ryan Wright" ryanpwright@xxxxxxxxx Date: Wed May 24, 2006 9:42am(PDT) Subject: Re: Alternate Fuel -- Water This doesn't make sense. Why would "the oil companies" buy up technology and then squirrel it away? Because it's a threat to their profits? Gee, if I were a big oil guy and owned the patents for all sorts of revolutionary power devices, I'd license them and get even richer. -Ryan On 5/23/06, doctorDHD@xxxxxxx <doctorDHD@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I agree Marc, just like an oil company bought the rights to large format > NiMH batteries and is blocking their use by anyone wanting to use them in Plug > In Electric Cars... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> You can search right from your browser? It's easy and it's free. See how. http://us.click.yahoo.com/_7bhrC/NGxNAA/yQLSAA/HliolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DMCForum/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/