Re: Tilting At Windmills

From: quibbler (quibbler247_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/01/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:12:02 -0700

In article <d81e59c9.0411290124.2c27aaca@posting.google.com>,
alexterrell@yahoo.com says...
> quibbler <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<MPG.1c141d63105be2a1989aa2@news.individual.net>...
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> snip
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> > Higher oil prices mean high profits for all oil producers. It's that
> > simple. Of course there are more complicated ways to make money as
> > well. Bush's best buddies, the Saudis, will almost certainly reward
> > Bush Junior for the massive amounts of money that he helped put in their
> > coffers, just like they did with his father after the first Gulf War.
> > People in the Carlyle group and others with inside information certainly
> > also stood to make a lot of money by investing in oil companies or
> > military corporations. They may reward him as well. But the number one
> > source of money for the war has been the US treasury. Bush has lavishly
> > spent $275 billion on the war and it's doubtful that he cares how much
> > debt he saddles the American people with to advance his agenda.
>
> OK - now I understand. You're one of those guys who believes
> everything Michael Moore broadcasts.

OK, now you need to stop lashing out at stereotyped targets. Moore may
not always be right, but he isn't all wrong either. In fact, the
information (or even the propaganda) he puts out is a whole lot fucking
more reliable than you can usually expect out of the Bush
administration.

> His problem is he talked so much
> bull***, any truths in his film become immediately suspect.

That's not his problem. It's the problem of knee jerk reactionaries who
adopt silly standards like the one you're suggesting. If republicans
applied the same standards of truth to Bush as they do to Moore then
they wouldn't be able to believe anything Dubya said either.

> > That's true, except that these customers also need ways of storing
> > energy for various uses, including transportation.
>
> Car batteries.

Right now they are too heavy, too low capacity and too expensive. 

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