Subject: Re: [drugwar] (still ot) Re: [drugwar] (OT) Fw: [Mr_Tracys_Corner] DON'T BUY GAS ON MAY 19TH Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 11:05:29 -0400 To: From: Bob Armstrong On Sun, 16 May 2004 22:00:24 -0400, Preston Peet wrote: >=A0Or, >=A0=A0=A0One could say that the current high prices are rooted in our= insistance >=A0in buying and using fossile fuels (one more instance of our= reliance on and >=A0love of death) instead of other, oh, cleaner more abundant,= sustainable and >=A0renewable alternative energy sources. Pray tell me ( off list ) just what these other so much more= perfect energy sources are . I absolutely assure you I can get tons of greedy= venture funding to develop them and we can get rich as a Rockefeller . Incidentally , I should have included taxes as being at least a= third of the price of gas . >=A0=A0=A0In this I guess I probably come down in the Libertarian camp,= in that >=A0the fossile fuel cartels have actively worked against our= finding, >=A0developing and using alternative sources of energy (like, say,= hemp)-working >=A0against a real free market in other words. Total fantasy . In fact many petroleum companies , BP is a prime= example , waste money on alternative projects which make no scientific= sense just for the PR advantage they figure it will get them with the= non-analytically educated non-reality based emotion dominated Greens . ( We're all Greens , by the way . Green is not a political= philosophy . ) Incidentally , it would take a lot of biogenetic work to create= hemp strains which would be competitive with corn in converting solar energy= into useful biomass . Even so , corn ethanol is not price competitive with= petroleum without subsidies . >=A0=A0=A0I wonder if smoking pot (or using other currently illegal= drugs) would >=A0make these oil cartel types nicer and more open minded about= this idea. If someone had something that was as energy dense and cheaper ,= it obviously would obsolete the cartel and they couldn't do= anything about it . Consider the fact that the whole world is working on the problem= and , for instance Japan is in the lead with hybrid vehicles , and= France with the cleanest of all sources , nuclear plants . --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Computing Environment : =A0http://CoSy.com/CoSy/ A WTC vision : http://CoSy.com/CoSy/ConicAllConnect/ Libertarian Presidential Candidates =A0:= http://CoSy.com/Liberty.htm =A0=A0=A0For Senator from NY : http://www.silbergerforsenator.org/ =A0=A0WHY DOES THE UNITED STATES INCARCERATE A LARGER PERCENTAGE, AND A LARGER NUMBER, OF ITS CITIZENS THAN ANY OTHER NATION ON= EARTH?=A0 =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02004/05/17 10:44:26 AM