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Raw materials and fuel is hardly all labor
Most of the costs are sales, marketing, profiteering
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The prices can theoretically come down quite a lot
The price of oil is one of the cost most obvious to the ordinary customers
The use of alternative energy is obviously favored by the high costs of oil
For last thirty 30 years we have been getting warnings that the prices of oil would be going up steeply but most people have ignored it
Finally now the price of oil is noticable for most people
There have been alternatives available for a long time but they are still a long way off at replacing oil altogether but it seems that the higher costs now will speed things up
The old companies rely on inertia and slow changes
The old companies management have missed out on doing these neccessary changes and there is also a question of the authorities to help create the infrastructure for the new energies
The authorities should put a lot of taxes on oil and stimulate use of fuel cells
If they did that the changes will go even quicker and the need to invade more countries to get more oil would be less
