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"Ted Mittelstaedt" > wrote in part:
> >"Jim Chinnis" > wrote in message .. . >> "Ted Mittelstaedt" > wrote in part: >> >> >At any rate, we already know what we need to do to the economy to >> >reduce dependence on foreign oil. We need to migrate the economy >> >to renewable power sources. And there are not many of them. Wind >> >power is really one of the few available that has enough energy to >> >run the economy. Nuclear is another if you can accept the waste problem >> >(most people can't) The rest of them, such as damming rivers, direct >> >photovoltiac conversion, geothermal, biofuel and so forth, either have >> >unwanted >> >side effects (fish kills) or are too terribly inefficient, or there >aren't >> >enough >> >of them, to provide sufficient energy. >> >> But none of those approaches has a chance while oil is cheap. So, >> yeah, we know what we need to do. > >But, it isn't cheap, actually. It is just the costs are spread elsewhere. The marginal cost to a consumer is cheap. That's why alternative sources won't fly. I don't disagree that the hidden costs are substantial, but they are hidden and don't influence consumers' choices. >Let's face it, the entire reason Bush invaded Iraq was oil. If the cost >of that war was entirely paid for by a federal tax on each barrel of >oil, you would see sudden readjustment in people thinking of oil being >"cheap" And while we are at it, might as well pay for all the >bribery I-mean-foreign-aid that we give Israel, Saudia Arabia, and >all the rest of the mid East countries to keep a lid on things over there. > >One of these days, and I hope I'm alive to see it, the Mid East will run >out of oil. When that happens the rest of the developed worlds governments, >including China, are going to turn their back on that area of the globe. >We will just build a giant fence around it, and let the occupants go >free to murder each other over 'their homelands' Maybe once they >have had a few generations of total warfare against each other and >flattened most of their population centers, they might get sick of it - >or if they cannot learn, then they will just end up killing each other off >until nobody is left. Either way, problem solved. > >Until then the rest of the world is stuck dumping money into that >snake pit. > >I guess we ought at least to thank our lucky stars that so many of >the people over there are mentally ****ed in the head with all this >religion crapola - if the societies in the Mid East ever came to their >senses and banded together, the rest of us in the world would >be their slaves. > >Ted There are religious fundamentalists everywhere. They know what God wants done and they let no one get in the way of carrying out "his" will. -- Jim Chinnis Warrenton, Virginia, USA |
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