> You are happy when the government "leases" public land for coal, oil and > gas extraction and gets paid little of nothing for it, but when it acts > to promote a more balanced energy policy you act outraged. (I worked on > the National Energy Plan for close to 10 years so I do know something > about this.)
No really, I get it. The current adminsitration will give us all free ponies and happy, butterfly-filled sunshine everyday. There's no way that the next adminstration will turn the ponies into hoardes of mind-controlled carnivores and the sunshine into giant, frikkin' laser beams. > That is simply untrue propaganda. You have no facts to back this up. You're right. the past 15 years was just a massive hallucination. My bad. > You > are of course defending another massive government give away to greedy > corporations -- corporate welfare. The public funded the development and > took all the risks. We're not talking about the Bush/Obama bailouts now. All those juicy profits the guvmint wasted by not developing a consumer-oriented Internet. Oh! The pain! > When it became very apparent that it was a success > the greedy rushed in and took things over for free. The greedy bellyache > about collecting every last cent for their "intellectual property," but > would be outraged if asked to pay for what they appropriated. Blah, blah, blah, partisan blinkers, yadda, yadda, yadda. Call when you have a point to make. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
