Yeah right on John. Christ, 2.10am watching Terminator 2 and a funding interview tomorrow! Guess I think subconsciously that nothing will come of it.
-----Original Message----- From: John Steck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 September 2008 01:57 To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:GM Chevy Volt at CalCars Kind of a silly question. We have enough natural resources here to stop importing foreign oil any time we want. We just don't really want to. Our actions, not our pontificating give that away. The grand irony is I believe the enviro-fascists are the biggest culprits who keep us locked into this dependency mode. They have successfully prevented developing any/all domestic production capacity of any kind for over 30 years. Even 'clean' hydro, wind, solar are blocked because of the habitat impact on some flipping lizard, tadpole, bat, snail, or obscure prairie plant. Last time I checked evolution is not anywhere near that considerate... adapting to sudden extreme change is par for the course, not the exception. That said, I hope we really are heating up the planet (though I know it is hubris to think so). We are going to need to dump as much methane & CO2 as we can into the atmosphere just to temper the severe climate changes the coming reduced solar output and pending ice age are going to bring in the next century. Our grandkids will thank us some day. I also place blame at the feet of the pathological liberalists amongst us who have no concept of (or who are in complete denial of) basic economic, technological, and scientific principals; supply and demand, cause and effect, premise and conclusion, structured problem solving, etc. Very quick to tell me how I must limit my life 'for the greater good', but adamant about the messy bits of their utopian plan not any where near their backyard. How many of the do-gooders would still gladly switch to plug-ins if it meant a nuke plant needed to be built at the end of their street to feed the little beasties? I think we all know the answer to that... NIMBY! Oil is not the enemy. It's just a convenient target of the truly ignorant. You want energy independence? Attack the most dangerous members of our society who stand in the way of it 'for the greater good'. -j -------------------------------------------------- From: "OrionWorks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 4:20 PM To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Subject: Re: [Vo]:GM Chevy Volt at CalCars > Hypothetically speaking... > > Two subtle questions: > > (1) If cost were no object, and sufficient numbers of American > consumers could afford to purchase HYBRID cars would we be able to > eventually stop importing foreign oil? > > (2) If cost were no object, and sufficient numbers of American > consumers could afford to purchase PLUGIN cars would we be able to > eventually stop importing foreign oil? > > What say the experts? > > Regards > Steven Vincent Johnson > www.OrionWorks.com > www.zazzle.com/orionworks >
