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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] *plays "X-Files" whistle* The Oil Companies are behind the suppression of the existence of aliens, too, Jay. >"they are loosing and have lost tremendous amounts of wild space to the point that it takes reservations and a year to get into a national park...about the only 'wild' space around." Bullshit. All but the most urbanized states are FULL of wilderness. Pennsylvania alone has 27,200 square miles of forest, (that's 3/5 of the whole state) much of which is pristine. The reason it takes reservations and a year to get into a National Park is government regulations. >"Deal with the fact that people realize that brown air sucks." We dealt with that in Pittsburgh more than 20 years ago, without harming industry OR cutting consumption. Your other cities' methods must suck, or something. >"it's drilling and processing has enriched oh so very few but at what cost." Well for starters, everybody who's ever lived in an industrialized country, and everybody who hasn't who's traded with them, since the Industrial Revolution started. But let's forget about them. >"California were the Republican governor, the Republican legislature, and the overblown fat cats if the utility companys who pushed through a looser of a deregulation plan so they could see a ton of profits. They had them, business got them as parent companies like Edison reaped huge amounts of money from the utility company for a couple of years and then the bottom fell out." Of course, the bottom fell out because they only deregulated halfway, a point you keep conveniently forgetting, (you can't force companies to keep their rates limited if the price of energy changes, and have a workable system. It's the economy, stupid) largely thinks to your Democratic governor. And the overblown blowhards in the environmental lobby who kneecapped the populace by creating regulations so tight and expensive that even WITH profits, the companies could not afford the hassle of building new plants. Why drill in ANWR? 1. It will bost the local economy, and the natives want that. They'd like to live in the 21st century like the rest of us. Taxes generated will allow them to better manage the wildlife (this is their words, not mine), so that the Caribou herds will grow (as they have whenever drilling happened in the past, much to the chagrin of the doomsayers. The caribou population is six times what it was when the drilling started.) 2. Because dependency on others is BAD. We shouldn't be relying on hostile nations and petty thugs (isn't that a line from Insurrection?) controlling our energy market. 3. Because the alternatives STILL don't work. This isn't Sweden, we don't have their population or their weather patterns. I AGREE that more money should be spent on developing alternatives, especially solar. But the way to do that is to make it PROFITABLE. Government doesn't do that. Government rarely does ANYTHING efficiently, except take your money. (No, I take that back. Look at that tax code, that's not efficient either.) YOU build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door. You make solar profitable (which is NOT the same as making everything else more expensive), and Industry will beat that path for you. Which is where tax breaks for the use/development of alternative energies comes in. That's profit. (Which can be put back into R&D to make more efficient products which create more profit, etc.) Money talks. Bullshit walks. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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