> Personally I would rather drive something with better mileage than less, > if nothing more than to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Same reason > I drive ONLY American cars to begin with I guess.
Actually, it all depends on how jaded one's world view is. The amount of both greed and stupidity we allow is pathetic. I can introduce you to a man who has been in the oil business for 47 years. He will tell you and can prove to anyone who wishes to listen that the ***known*** U.S. oil reserves off both the U.S. eastern and western coasts and off the U.S. gulf coast is about 5 times larger than all of the mid-east oil reserves combined. We can't drill for that oil because every affected state's governor refuses to allow it for fear it would hurt tourism. That state's Congressional delegation generally backs up that state's governor. Stupid and self-serving. The same goes for the known oil reserves in Alaska. What's under the north slope is bigger than you can imagine. But our Liberal Elite wants us dependent on foreign oil for that can be manipulated to increase the power base of the Liberal Elite. We have met the enemy, and he is us. And then we have very safe nuclear power that the rest of the world uses, but we haven't had a new nuke plant for 30 years. Britain, Japan, and Western Europe have 4th generation nuke plants that are super safe. When's the last time you ever heard the media scream about a nuke accident? Not in the past 30 years in any of those nations, because it doesn't happen. I'd much rather have electricity produced by nukes than burn natural gas, fuel oil, and coal. Milton Schick 1964 442 Cutlass [EMAIL PROTECTED]
