Five Dollar Gas

> > Mines and factories that are started NOW (not fifty or
> > seventy years ago) have to have a plan for profitability
> > within the year. If not, they don't get built.
>
> Bullshit. How can anyone build a mine or factory that
> will show repay itself in a year? If there was any opportunities
> for that rate of return they diappeared long ago, snapped up in
> about an instant. Mines generally have lives in the decades
> and have a ROI comparable with other investments. Simple math
> tells you that this means they can't deliver in one year enough
> repay the investment.

"Profitable" isn't the same as "You got all your investment back"

"Profitable" means that you cover all your operating expenses, and the payment
on the loan you took out to open it in the first place, and then some (i.e. profit).