what the ME thinks!

Dont how this topic came to my head today but its one thing I keep thinking about whenever there’s a hike in fuel price. I have been following the price of petrol, the value of the US dollar and the price of Gold Flake (;-) for almost a decade now. The US dollar is getting weaker as the Euro keeps rising. Demand for Gold Flake in my household is, unfortunately as steady as it always was…! Price of petrol keeps on rising as if there is no tommorow. I suppose it qualifies to be called a giffen good. What bugs me is that despite the rising prices no-one is paying much attention to looking for any other source of energy which would run our auto-mobiles…They say solar energy is the way to go but thats one thing I’ve been hearing for all my life now! When will this ‘next big thing’ will actually become BIG? Why isnt there any source of energy which is as efficient as petrol, found in abundance and less polluting? Do we dont have a solution or is the so called ‘oil-mafia’ trying to prevent a solution from coming up? One keeps reading news articles prophesising that our oil resources getting extinguished by 2025. Then what are we waiting for? Its less than 20 years away people! Do something or let the truth out (i.e. if there is one is there is one)!

While attending a lecture I started thinking about the super-successful people of today. All of them have had to do very hard and smart work, to be what they are today. Was wondering what would they do if somehow all their wealth and power were stripped off them? I mean, would they be able to rebuild their empires, reclaim their positions? Like what would Bill Gates, Shahrukh Khan, Sachin Tendulkar do if all their wealth, power, fame was gone in a flash! Would Gates be able to come out with a product that could atleast get him back atleast a billion dollars? Would SRK be able to beat the star-sons and once again be counted amongst the very best in Bollywood? Would Sachin be able to get back into the Indian team? How would these people script their return? Or would they be able to do it at all?! What say people?