Re: Limitless hydrogen?

[thomas malloy]

Jones Beene posted;
<<G>> On a lighter note, does writing about silicides mean
that one has a silly-side, and/or does a silicide-joke cause
one to laugh to death?
Who says that scientists don't have a sense of humor?

 Given what it costs to drill such a well, $5 gas
equivalent seems
 about right. I fail to see what economics has to do with
religion.
Besides tithing, you mean? I suppose it has to do with using
the Church as a silent partner,
The tithe only applies to farmers in the land of Israel. However we 
do have an obligation to G-d to support the teachers who feed us with 
his word.

just as the Fascists and
Nazis used the Catholic church, in order to rally voters
into re-electing your candidate -
Equating any part of the Christian church with the Nazis who were 
pagans is quite disingenuous.

 which is what has happened
here recently due to the neo-cons, who have somehow
conveniently forgotten that the main part of conservatism is
economic conservatism.
I agree with the last part, however we are in a civilizational war 
with the forces of another god who wants to convert or destroy us. 
deficits are part of making war.

....which means that Bill Clinton is really the only true
economic conservative in post-war America, being the only
President to deliver large budget surpluses and lower the
nation debt.
His balanced budget was the result of an economic bubble. You haven't 
forgotten the Internet bubble, I assume? Clinton also cut budgets for 
the military and intelligence, which are part of today's budget 
deficits.

And BTW, as mentioned before, I am not a Democrat; and
furthermore, if you are a voting conservative and under 40
years of age, there is absolutely no doubt that I have voted
for more Republicans than you have, although very few since
Reagan, which is about the time that the neo-con
anti-fiscal-conservatives hi-jacked the party under the
sickening guise of moral duty, and handed it over completely
to oil interests and fundamnetalist-ass-kissing
spin-doctors.

Until recently I voted Libertarian or Independent. W has merely 
slowed down the march to Socialism. When given a choice, he steers 
left more often than right. We Evangelicals see W's election as the 
will of G-d.

But the case can be made that the Democrat Party lost because it has 
abandoned it's core by moving way to the left. Algore would have won 
if he would have carried his home state, but no, he wanted to suck up 
to the east coast liberals. Senator Flipflop might have won if he 
hadn't alienated his fellow Vietnam Veterans with his traitorous 
antics with the VVAW. The man was only consistent on one thing, 
continuing the infanticide and calling it choice.


 When your car's tank is empty, you're just glad that you
can fill it
 up again.
...until the glaciers start to melt in a "runaway" mode,
costal cities start to flood, artic species literally choke
to death from methane poisoning, all in about 2026 or
before, and by then there is little prospect of reversing
the trend.
Yawn, I live on a hill. I have mentioned the rocks which are hitting 
the Sun and the volcanos under the ocean, IMHO, they are contributing 
way more to warming than our collective tail pipe emissions. Some 
thing is warming up the bottom of the oceans, and I don't think it's 
the Sun.


 Given inflation, $2 gasoline is the equivalent of 20¢
gasoline in 1960.
It is a little disingenuous to state things like this when
any real economist not on the administration payroll, will
tell you that the only thing that has pushed inflation IS
oil prices.
There has been a times 10 inflation in cars and houses. I can't make 
a living if I can't drive. No work, no eat.

Thast is, since the late sixties when the
petro-mafia helped found OPEC, because they knew they would
benefit even more than the Arabs. IOW everything else in the
US economy,
Nonsense, OPEC controls the raw material. There is plenty more oil, 
it's just going to cost lots of money to get it.

because of productivity increase, would cost the
same or less now as it did in '67-68 had not it been for the
single item: oil prices (and the money supply, of course,
but that increase itself can be traced directly to oil
prices)
Oil prices are a symptom of demand and supply. There are many factors 
driving inflation, chief among them is the increasing size of 
government and it's handmaidens the trial lawyers. Fuel prices have 
just kept up with inflation in general.