Re: National Security Think Tanks Call for Shift from Oil

From: bj (hollabaugh_at_comteck.com)
Date: 12/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:59:34 -0500

"H. E. Taylor" <het@despam.autobahn.mb.ca> wrote in message
news:4160599F.7BA2@despam.autobahn.mb.ca...
> In article <416037A0.6C69C61B@eagle.ca>,
> <gcowan@eagle.ca> G. R. L. Cowan wrote:
> > "H. E. Taylor" wrote:
> >>
> >> It will be interesting to see what comes of these papers.
> >>
> >> 2004/10/01: SolarAccess: National Security Think Tanks Call for Shift
from Oil
> >> [...]
> >> Representatives of the Institute for the Analysis of Global
> >> Security (IAGS), the Center for Security Policy, the
> >> Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, the Hudson
> >> Institute, The Committee on the Present Danger, National
> >> Defense Council Foundation and others who have endorsed
> >> the plan agree that, with appropriate vision and leadership, the
> >> next President can make major strides to greatly diminish the
> >> U.S. transportation sector's consumption of oil.]>[...]
> ]><http://www.solaraccess.com/news/story?storyid=7649>
> >
> > And greatly reduce the two hundred million dollars a day
> > government is making off it?
> >
> > I suppose the proposed remedies are chosen
> > with an eye to ineffectiveness.
> >
>
> I was more impressed by the fact that there are a bunch
> of right wing wonks making the suggestion -- whatever they
> propose.
>
> <regards>
> -het
>
>
>
> --
> "Humanity is performing a 'great geophysical experiment', not in a
laboratory,
> not in a computer, but on our own planet." -R. Revelle & H. E. Suess(1957)
>
> Name your Poison: http://www.autobahn.mb.ca/~het/catastrophes.html
> H.E. Taylor http://www.autobahn.mb.ca/~het/

Message from a right winger:

Hydrogen energy is a extremely stupid idea. It not going to happen in my
lifetime nor yours!
It is like global warming a magnet for all the left wing morons of the
world.

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