"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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?? I drive a Jeep, and I have three other cars. I'm willing to pay more or
pick smaller cars if that's what it takes. I don't often agree with
Bushco, and even though he's just pandering, I agree that America is
addicted to oil produced by countries who are hostile to us. We should let
them eat their oil by reducing our dependency.

What we don't buy, China will. The Arabs couldn't care less if we all buy
solar-powered electric cars.

Max

Maxprop wrote:
"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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?? I drive a Jeep, and I have three other cars. I'm willing to pay more or
pick smaller cars if that's what it takes. I don't often agree with
Bushco, and even though he's just pandering, I agree that America is
addicted to oil produced by countries who are hostile to us. We should let
them eat their oil by reducing our dependency.

What we don't buy, China will. The Arabs couldn't care less if we all buy
solar-powered electric cars.

Max


Yes...they will buy and use up all the Arab oil...not bothering to
exploit their own oil fields...then they will ahve a monopoly on
oil, as well, as everything else. If you can't get there one way,
another road will do.

I don't care what China buys, but actually the Arabs would care, since we
would be setting the precedent for non-polluting transport and China would
likely follow our lead. We can even sell them the technology. The point is
that we won't be dependent upon Arab states. Lack of air/water/ground
pollution would be a second benefit. Even China and India don't want
pollution.

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"Maxprop" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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?? I drive a Jeep, and I have three other cars. I'm willing to pay more
or pick smaller cars if that's what it takes. I don't often agree with
Bushco, and even though he's just pandering, I agree that America is
addicted to oil produced by countries who are hostile to us. We should
let them eat their oil by reducing our dependency.

What we don't buy, China will. The Arabs couldn't care less if we all buy
solar-powered electric cars.

Max

Capt. JG wrote:
I don't care what China buys, but actually the Arabs would care, since we
would be setting the precedent for non-polluting transport and China would
likely follow our lead. We can even sell them the technology. The point is
that we won't be dependent upon Arab states. Lack of air/water/ground
pollution would be a second benefit. Even China and India don't want
pollution.

You're talking about a country with some of the filthiest rivers in
the world....

That's right. And, even the people in the gov't there are concerned about it
or will be concerned about it. No one wants to live in a polluted
environment.

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"katy" wrote in message
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Capt. JG wrote:
I don't care what China buys, but actually the Arabs would care, since we
would be setting the precedent for non-polluting transport and China
would likely follow our lead. We can even sell them the technology. The
point is that we won't be dependent upon Arab states. Lack of
air/water/ground pollution would be a second benefit. Even China and
India don't want pollution.

You're talking about a country with some of the filthiest rivers in the
world....

"Capt. JG" wrote in message
...
That's right. And, even the people in the gov't there are concerned about
it or will be concerned about it. No one wants to live in a polluted
environment.

Bubbles does. Why else would he choose to live in NYC?

Max

"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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"Maxprop" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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?? I drive a Jeep, and I have three other cars. I'm willing to pay more
or pick smaller cars if that's what it takes. I don't often agree with
Bushco, and even though he's just pandering, I agree that America is
addicted to oil produced by countries who are hostile to us. We should
let them eat their oil by reducing our dependency.

What we don't buy, China will. The Arabs couldn't care less if we all
buy solar-powered electric cars.

I don't care what China buys, but actually the Arabs would care, since we
would be setting the precedent for non-polluting transport and China would
likely follow our lead.

You mean like how they emulate us w/r/t human rights and the rights of
female infants?

We can even sell them the technology.

Why bother? They'll steal it and produce it for half the cost and sell it
to us.

The point is that we won't be dependent upon Arab states.

That's a laudable goal.

Lack of air/water/ground pollution would be a second benefit.

Reduction, perhaps, but never a "lack."

Even China and India don't want pollution.

No one does, but no one, including us, really makes any effort to curtail
it.

Max

I'm not going to try and defend China's human rights record. That's got
nothing to do with air pollution. No one is interested in living in polluted
environment, and the Chinese, including the leaders, are not stupid. They
know that the long term consequences are bad, and if nothing else, the
Chinese are into long term.

If you're going to play semantic games, such as lack of vs. minimize, then
there's not much point in going any further with the discussion. It's stupid
and doesn't contribute anything substantive.

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"Maxprop" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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"Maxprop" wrote in message
link.net...

"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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?? I drive a Jeep, and I have three other cars. I'm willing to pay more
or pick smaller cars if that's what it takes. I don't often agree with
Bushco, and even though he's just pandering, I agree that America is
addicted to oil produced by countries who are hostile to us. We should
let them eat their oil by reducing our dependency.

What we don't buy, China will. The Arabs couldn't care less if we all
buy solar-powered electric cars.

I don't care what China buys, but actually the Arabs would care, since we
would be setting the precedent for non-polluting transport and China would
likely follow our lead.

You mean like how they emulate us w/r/t human rights and the rights of
female infants?

We can even sell them the technology.

Why bother? They'll steal it and produce it for half the cost and sell it
to us.

The point is that we won't be dependent upon Arab states.

That's a laudable goal.

Lack of air/water/ground pollution would be a second benefit.

Reduction, perhaps, but never a "lack."

Even China and India don't want pollution.

No one does, but no one, including us, really makes any effort to curtail
it.

Max

"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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I'm not going to try and defend China's human rights record. That's got
nothing to do with air pollution. No one is interested in living in
polluted environment, and the Chinese, including the leaders, are not
stupid. They know that the long term consequences are bad, and if nothing
else, the Chinese are into long term.

If you're going to play semantic games, such as lack of vs. minimize, then
there's not much point in going any further with the discussion. It's
stupid and doesn't contribute anything substantive.

Okay.

Max

I take that back. :-)

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"Maxprop" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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I'm not going to try and defend China's human rights record. That's got
nothing to do with air pollution. No one is interested in living in
polluted environment, and the Chinese, including the leaders, are not
stupid. They know that the long term consequences are bad, and if nothing
else, the Chinese are into long term.

If you're going to play semantic games, such as lack of vs. minimize,
then there's not much point in going any further with the discussion.
It's stupid and doesn't contribute anything substantive.

Okay.

Max