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" JimH" jimh_osudad@yahooDOT comREMOVETHIS wrote in
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You cannot deny them a profit, but it is obvious the oil company's
are fleecing us.

Knight-Ridder has a higher profit margin than Exxon-Mobil. Is "Big
Media" fleecing us too? And if so, where are your protestations
against them?

One is a voluntary purchase, the other is as close to mandatory and
one could come.

Capiche?

The guy you voted for in 2000 said that the internal combustion engine is
the greatest threat to mankind, and you're calling the purchase of its
lifeblood "mandatory"? Reverend Gore will be quite disappointed that you
haven't converted your home to solar and your car to ethanol or vegetable
oil. After all, the enviro-loonies ARE right, right? That alternative
energy sources are viable, practical and cost-efficient? Or is it all
just a load of socialist lies designed to buttress the politics of envy?

Your statement answers that last question definitively. Thank-you.

And I suppose we'd be better off if we hadn't invented the gas engine,
after all, the steam engine did just as well, right?

That being the case, we should put all our investment in finding more
expensive methods of sucking oil from the earth until we've run out of
ways to do it.

Then we can shift our attention to alternatives, right? Uhhhhh....

So, your extremist retort is, assuming that anyone not aligned with your
near-sighted program is a faggot treehugger, our answer must be to stop
using petroleum products tomorrow.... no, not soon enough... tonight!!!!
Yeah, right.

The world economy would fail if the US suddenly stopped using petroleum
based products, your (much smarter) nemesis Al Gore knows that.

The point you don't want to admit, the one that I'm trying to drive
home, is that we need to make a bigger commitment to finding
alternatives to fossil-based fuels or find and implement methods of
using it more efficiently. With the current administration in control,
that ain't gonna happen. They're so deeply in the pocket of big energy
and corporate influence peddlers that they'd have to successfully fake
their own deaths to break the stranglehold.

There's no magic bullet but incremental investments in research and
development of energy technology can certainly help stem the incredible
dependence we have on petroleum.

I expect you consider yourself a conservative. Why is it that you
people preach anything but conservatism and still assume it's
conservative thinking?

jps

We have a cure for the energy problem. NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS! But the
enviro's got the building of same, outlawed.