My point is that oil and nuclear power plants do in fact receive huge subsidies and this is in fact part of their business model. I am not sure how viable ethanol is but wind and solar, given a tenth of the subsidies oil recieves, could easily be quite profitable, thank you.
As for your whole contention that there si no point in trying to fix anything because the Chinese are polluting too... any mother can see the flaw in that one. On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Robert Munn <cfmuns...@gmail.com> wrote: > The oil industry gets tax breaks to develop more oil fields. I'm all for > giving tax breaks like that, but it doesn't help the ethanol industry > because they don't make enough profits for it to make a difference. They > produce an unprofitable product and would not even be in business if not > for > huge government subsidies. You can't say the same about the oil industry. > > As for the sky falling, that is exactly what the global warming shysters > want you to believe. > > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Dana wrote: > > > you mean unlike the oil and nuclear industries, which receive no > subsidies > > at all, right? > > > > The sky is falling, the sky is falling.... we are all doomed, doomed I > > say! And all because those Chinese are doing stuff. Clearly there is no > > point in getting off the track. That oncoming train is all in your mind. > > And > > besides, if you do, it might not make a difference. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:283176 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
