Leaked E-Mails: Syria intervention plan fueled by oil interests---NOT--- chemical weapon concern

[Volaris]

88. It used to be a GIVEN in any decent Business School,

that in order to stay one step ahead of your competition, you took a fairly large %age of the profit you were generating and re-invested it into research and development of new products and better forms of delivery. The Energy industry is one of the FEW large sectors left in the economy that is still making it's bones off of a century-old technology and this because they have convinced the rest of us that next quarter's profit margin is MORE important than having the company you invest in around in another 100 years. If Sears or Coca-Cola or Hershey's had tried that as start-ups, no one would have ever heard of them, because they would have failed miserably. It's like the Air Force saying, "Well, you see we need to spend all this tax money to develop new and better Nuclear weapons, because the ones we have are based on the same basic design (still) as the one we built in 1945.

Yes, theres only a few effective ways to turn hydrogen into a weapon. But the basic concept is STILL 70 YEARS OLD. It's like thinking that Horses are going to play a pretty large part in the next large-scale land-war and we had better keep paying all those war-horse breeders as much money as they say they need in order to see to it that we have BETTER war-horses than the OTHER guy.