Economy
The future
Shaun
Long term, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Tasmanian wood processed into not paper (the ultimate end use of most wood cut in Tasmania at present – the mills are simply offshore but that’s exactly where the wood ends up) but alcohol for use as motor fuel. It’s not a comprehensive solution to the oil problem by any means but then neither is anything else. Odds are that we (worldwide) will end up using anything and everything that works with the only question being the order of development.