A real answer

I wonder if any semi-scientific or maybe profoundly scientific discussion
can have any real affect on what the real problem is, imo, the energy policy
of the United States.

There was a guy on "Book TV" the other day, who has a real problem with
Foreign Aid. He claims that the government and non-government organizations
are playing at foreign aid but not really doing it. His answer boils down to
accountability and feedback. He says we aren't getting feedback from the
people who are supposed to be being helped and he says no one is directly
accountable for single problems that everyone agress need to be addressed.
Sort of like ... "We have these ongoing problems. We're all working on them
for several decades." with the message that they are good guys in a good
organization. But no one can say why the problems are still there and there
is no one to take responsibility for not having answers ...

How can anyone talk about the details of wind vs. methanol or whatever is
discussion du jour, without asking how the US can have an intelligent
discussion on the highest levels that presents all sides of the issue to
infrom the public about what needs to be done and what it's going to cost in
dolllars, sacrafice, and a change in our habits, if that is what's is
necessary?

And can't someone put the ideas here in a form that can be understood by
non-scientists? Most of us just don't have the interest or time to become
scientists. Are your communication skills adequate to make your ideas
understandable, yes, I'm absolutely sure they are, if you decide to do so.
Do you seem to understand each other? It doesn't seem so.

I guess this isn't really a scientifc ng. And the idea that anbody can get
the government to talk honestly, in the cause ot the benefit of the people,
is absurd when you've got the Oil Companies on one side and Arthur Daniels
Midlan on the other. And who knows what else? What a retard I am to think
all of those ads on PBS and sponsorships by ADM weren't motivated by
self-interest, and that the so-called public broadcasting couldn't be
bought. That's what it looks like anyway.


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