Hallo, I suppose I sound like an old record but...when it comes to politics good and honest men either do not enter politics or if they do then generally one of three things happen: (1) they find out that they have to compromise their integrity and they leave politics, (2) they do not remain good and honest men or, (3) they remain relatively good and honest but basically get nowhere becoming about as useful as tits on a boar hog.
I know some are better than others but in the end they should all have business cards with their slogan printed on them, that being: "Bend over and let me introduce myself". Meaningful change generally occurs on a one-to-one, grassroots level by example and a normally painfully slow evolutionary process. There are whackos at either end of the spectrum but most people are somewhere in the middle. And it must be remembered that, at least here in the US, those in the middle are like sheep following the goat with the bell. Don't do much heavy thinking and believe most of what the government and media and monied class tell them. Those folks have to be shown by clearcut examples before they will budge. They have to see the advantages and want what the results of their changing will bring. And, it has to be simple, straighforward and understandable. Running in opposing scientists with opposing theories doesn't get it. Practical demonstration of cause and effect is what works. Unfortunately, if it happens to be too much work for their "busy" lives then one may as well go piss up a rope because until one comes out of the fog and becomes aware then nothing is going to change. It is like my brothers and sisters watching my mother dying from emphysema and continuing to smoke. They won't quit until the oxygen tubes are run up their own noses. Too much work for a lazy lot. The future isn't real until it begins crapping on you. Dullards. In the meantime all we can do is be the best example we can be, keep ourselves and others informed and pray that the sleeping majority wakes up. Happy Happy, Gustl Friday, 26 December, 2003, 14:10:52, you wrote: AE> http://www.time.com/time/columnist/waller/article/0,9565,170983,00.html AE> First, to calm moderates in his party, Republican Congressman John Sununu of AE> New Hampshire tacked an amendment to the energy bill limiting the drilling AE> to just 2,000 of the 1.5 million acres along the coast plain. Then, the AE> Teamsters muscled 36 Democrats into voting for the drilling, claiming it AE> would create over 700,000 jobs. AE> Wow! An oil field only one-fifth the size of Washington's Dulles AE> International Airport that'd provide more jobs than there are working men AE> and women in Wyoming and Rhode Island? And would lower the nation's AE> unemployment rate by a half percent? Sounds too good to be true. AE> It may be. Turns out the 2,000 acres don't have to be contiguous and only AE> the space of the equipment touching the ground is counted. Each drilling AE> platform can take up as little as 10 acres. The pipelines are above ground. AE> For space purposes, the amendment counts only the ground touched by the AE> stanchions holding up the pipe. Road widths also are conveniently left out AE> of the space limit. "It's a complete sham," complains Allen Mattison, a AE> spokesman for the Sierra Club which opposes drilling. "It's like a fishing AE> net. If you count just the space of the string's width, that's small. But if AE> you open up a fishing net and count the area it covers, that's much larger." AE> Environmentalists complain that the House limit ends up allowing oil AE> companies to spread out over practically the entire 1.5 million acres. AE> As for the 700,000 jobs, that number comes from an 11-year-old study AE> commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute that economists complain AE> wildly inflates the employment potential. "It's just absurd," says Eban AE> Goodstein, an economist at Lewis and Clark College, who predicts the real AE> job growth will be less than one-tenth that number. -- Je mehr wir haben, desto mehr fordert Gott von uns. Mitglied-Team AMIGA ICQ: 22211253-Gustli ******** The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C. S. Lewis, "The Screwtape Letters" ******** Es gibt Wahrheiten, die so sehr auf der Stra§e liegen, da§ sie gerade deshalb von der gewšhnlichen Welt nicht gesehen oder wenigstens nicht erkannt werden. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
