guarantee -- we will hear that it was the environmentalists fault. We need more nukes, more coal .... Pass the damn energy bill.
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:31:37AM -0400, Kenneth Campbell wrote: > ABC News ran the most stunningly disturbing graphic... A map of the NE > continent, here... with a little second clock in the corner. With each > second, a jurisdiction or two shut down. "Off the grid." > > Michigan. > Tick. > Connecticut. > Tick. > Ohio. > Tick. > New Jersey. > Tick. > Wham -- Ontario, New York and Pennsylvania. > Tock. > > Nine seconds... and tens of millions of people are on the edge of > subsistence. Without any leadership any where. (Well, CBC Radio did a > fine job, operating on backup generators.) > > So... how is this going to play out politically? > > Ken. > > -- > Luxury employ'd a million of the poor, > and odious pride a million more; > Envy itself and Vanity > were ministers of Industry; > Their darling folly, and dress, > That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made > The very Wheel that turn'd the Trade. > -- Bernard Mandeville > "The Grumbling Hive" 1705 -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
