"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Take the blinders off and read something other than the front page of
the
Wash. Post and you will see that there is a two week backlog of ships
waiting in Austrailia to load coal bound for China.

Economic expansion can't occur without lots of energy and China is
expanding
at a massive rate and we are competing with them for limited oil
shipments.



Uh-huh...and the Bush Administration program for dealing with that
consists of...


Whoops.


There is no program.

Yeah there is. It's called "Aw hell....who needs Alaska?"