In reply to OrionWorks's message of Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:14:38 -0600: Hi, [snip] >We can continue spend hundreds of billions of dollars meddling in the >affairs of oil rich countries, most that hate our guts (sometimes with >justification) to secure energy resources - all in the name of national self >interest > >or > >We can spend the same hundreds of billions of dollars focusing on an equally >difficult task of developing alternative energy resources - all in the name >of national self interest. > >Why is it so difficult to chose! Makes me wanna cry.
...because "W" has links to both oil and arms, see e.g. http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/TiesThatBind.html [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means.
