"Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,
... I think that Europe has effectively decided (with the
exception of GB and Russia) to effectively not be military powers.
Yes, I agree -- at least to the extent of saying that Europe has
decided not to be able to project more than a little military power.
What is weird is that the European Union is not spending in ways that
might well make it independent of fossil fuels and more able to meet
its obligations to the Kyoto treaty ... and politically and
economically more independent of the Middle East, Russia, and Nigeria.
By this, I mean, why isn't the European Union spending an additional 3
percent of its gross domestic product on research and development for
alternative sources of energy?
The EU is not funding the complete ITER hydrogen fusion project, and
then five more different hydrogen fusion projects for 50 billion Euros
the first year, and with the remaining three-quarters of such a
budget, funding more wind generators, and solar cells and solar
heaters, and wave and water projects, and ways to convert coal to
liquid fuel, and ways to sequestor carbon, and ways to attract and
educate more people to do this research and development and .... It
is not even paying Poland and other countries in Eastern Europe to
grow `bio-fuels', which would enable the richer countries to fund east
European agriculture while being against the current Common
Agricultural Policy.
Such monies are the cost of peaceful victory.
--
Robert J. Chassell
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