Dear Keith,
I agree with Keith. Normally I do not like to discuss politics and religion, because of the entrenched fanatics that often are involved and the lack of progress of such discussions. Energy questions are so involved in our way of life, economical, political and society structures. It is important both to understand and put everything in the energy perspective, in order to put alternative energy and savings at the right priorities. It is impossible to promote and work with bio fuels, without touching the political issues. It is very enlightened and refreshing that you have this understanding. Hakan At 01:19 AM 11/10/2002 +0900, you wrote: > >Suggest political discussions should be directed to political > >discussion groups--unless they directly empact on the production, > >distribution, and sale of bidiesel. > > > >Alex Landels > >We don't have a lot of rules here, but one of them is "No topic >cops". We have had this discussion a few times, between those who >want topics restricted basically to what they want to talk about, and >those who want to keep it open, who say that biofuels is a >broad-ranging subject and should be dealt with in its context. If we >followed your advice, those people - probably a majority - would be >deprived, for your sake. On the other hand, keeping it open deprives >you and those who agree with you of exactly nothing. Nobody's forcing >you to read anything, right? If you're not interested, skip it. In >fact I'd challenge you to decide what's on-topic and what's not - >make a list, see if it makes sense. And if it does (doubtful), try to >apply it. Then, try to keep it up to date. Don't forget there are >people from more than a hundred countries here, to whom biofuels >means many different things, you must cater to all of them and their >views of the subject. Many of them state that it is not a subject >that makes any sense shorn of its political context. Others state >that it's an entirely political subject. You'd argue with that? You'd >probably lose. Anyway, this is not a list for mere discussion of the >production, distribution, and sale of biodiesel, it's a biofuels >list, not just biodiesel. That said, people do at times stray right >away from even a broad interpretation of the topic, but they seldom >go too far, and it quite often brings up on-topic issues that would >not otherwise have arisen. So, for all those reasons, there'll be no >restriction of topics here. > >Keith Addison >List owner > > > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Biofuels list archives: >http://archive.nnytech.net/ > >Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. >To unsubscribe, send an email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
