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From: "Horace Heffner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: Your Surrender has Been Ordered
On Feb 8, 2006, at 12:43 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
These things are caused by stupidity, greed, bad management and -- in
the face of terrorism -- energy policy that is tantamount to treason.
(These policies have been endorsed by both parties and the last six
presidents, but I still think they are close to treason.) Myriad
technical solutions to these problems have been available all along, in
plain sight.
You certainly have a good point there. Moving forward requires a
substantial attitude change, the good old American "can do" attitude.
This can do attitude is the opposite of that demonstrated by Exxon Mobil
Senior Vice President Stuart McGill. A united political position that we
have to break our addiction to foreign oil should go a long way toward
the needed attitude change. A fully united position is not there yet,
but with Bush's State of the Union address, the possibility of such a
united front seems to be there for the first time. If driving big gas
guzzlers is clearly unpatriotic, then most people won't do it. The rest
can be handled by energy taxes collected to build a new energy
infrastructure. The entire nation was mobilized in a few years to fight
World War 2. It won't take that kind of full mobilization effort to
achieve energy independence if we really get motivated and united.
All part of the ongoing propaganda campaign by big oil to keep all
competitors from challenging their dominance. If the leaders of Exxon
Mobil are on board with the prevailing opinion that we can kick our foreign
oil habit, then the debate is over. They want to keep hope alive for their
dirty and dying industry. Thankfully for us, oil will eventually go the way
of the eight track tape and we will move on to a cleaner more sustainable
energy regime with or without the Exxon Mobil's of the world.
