Murdoch wrote: >What I get out of this is that you're saying it's a project that needs >doing.
Many people agreed at the time that it was/is. >I am not sure that I am up to it so I will not volunteer at >this time. I wasn't suggesting that you personally take it up. I was wondering if anyone was willing to. Seems not. Too bad. I'll drop it then. >That gives me personally a mental list of 2.5: > >Posting Weekly Ethanol Pricing (since none is readily available >anywhere). >Cleaning up my ethanol page (which I posted because I was tired of the >helpful messages I saw on HIPC going the way of all chat messages). >Putting up a clearing-up-biodiesel misconceptions page. > >I put up an ethanol page about 6 months ago: >http://www.herecomesmongo.com/ae/CH3CH2OH.html >and have since added, above and below, a few of the posts I found >here. It is more a place for me to keep things than necessarily >intended to help others. It started out as a response to an >acquaintance of mine. I don't care if anyone here hates it, but if >someone has some constructive comment, I suppose that could help. > >As to Kerry, he's neither going away, nor is his staff completely >incompetent to some of these battles (I guess they'd qualify as >researchers... quasi-reporters... in your scenario Um, no, I think not, not quasi-reporters. But never mind. He has his research staff. Anyway, from what you said, they lost the battle against the diesel-bashers, eh? Or was it quite that way? In "Why Cafe Failed Fuel Conservation, An open letter to Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.)" in The Washington Post on March 18, 2002, Warren Brown said: "It's time for you and your supporters to end your knee-jerk opposition to all things diesel. Stop confusing politics with science." http://www.dieselforum.org/inthenews/washpost_031802.html This was after Kerry's statement that you referred to. Here are some references to his getting bashed though: http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/059/nation/Kerry_s_idea_on_diesel_fu el_irks_environmentalists+.shtml Boston Globe Online / Nation | World / Kerry's idea on diesel fuel irks environmentalists http://www.freep.com/news/nw/fuel28_20020228.htm Kerry to deal on gas proposal http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/2090960p-2423051c.html The Sacramento Bee, April 7, 2002 Diesel fuel would slash energy use and greenhouse gas >)...but you're >probably right that he's taken more heat than he might want and will >take some more for his stance in diesel (he did point out when he was >asked to defend his stance.... as to the cleaner nature of Euro >Diesel). Or will change his stance on diesel. >From a political currents point of view, the immediate effect was to >deflate about 50% of the early momentum he had made for himself, but >that would also have happened just by most moving on to other issues >anyway. For a week or two, he made his energy policy proposals a >fairly hot topic. > >His energy policy positions, in general, reflected a great deal of >thought and planning and my first reading of them them was a >stand-up-and-cheer moment for me, with the possible exception of his >inflexible stance on ANWR where he made clear that he would >fillibuster any ANWR drilling (I know, I'm not supposed to allow for >at least discussing ANWR drilling but I do). Sorry, I don't understand the bit in brackets, what aren't you supposed to do? Keith ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> FREE COLLEGE MONEY CLICK HERE to search 600,000 scholarships! http://us.click.yahoo.com/DlIU9C/4m7CAA/Ey.GAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
