Again right on target Min.
I totally agree with you. Fusil fuels,
especially Petroleum, despite problems
with pollution are the best option
we presently have. For some reason
we've been always bombarded with
gloom and doom propaganda about
this form of the fuel. For years and years
there was the scare that the world will
soon run out of oil. Now that we are
discovering ever larger and larger
oil reserves in least expected places
(even the South Pole is said to contain
a humongous reserve that will become
accessible through global warming),
we are being constantly bothered about
pollution and its effects on environment.
Granted, we have to protect the environment,
but we need to get our priorities straight here.
Sure there is some waste and we could use less.
But the progressive approach
(and the more viable one)
is to focus our efforts into inventing ways
to reduce the harmful emissions from this
abundant fuel form. All oil companies
should obtain grants and other incentives
from governments across the world
to boost their R&D efforts and help
find ways of using fossil fuels cleanly
and with the least amount of pollution possible.
This can be done and is completely feasable
as we proved it when we took out the Lead
out of gasoline for cars, thereby reducing
emission of a very harmful toxin into the air.
Stat.


"Daniel Joseph Min" <Real.Min@Colorado.USA> wrote in message
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On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, "MonsieurStat" <Monsieurstat@yahoo.com> wrote:

"Daniel Joseph Min" <Real.Min@Colorado.USA> wrote in message
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Thanks, but I'd realized upon completing Chapter 16 of my
humble Apocalypse Commentary that it was time to retire
my pen from writing books and devote the rest of my life
to helping all peace-loving people in the world to DESTROY
the liberal terrorists using every and all means available,
thus to Repent and make *straight* the highway of the LORD.

May your SUV be always full of gas, and you encounter no flat tires.
Stat.

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I personally haven't driven any fossil-fuel powered vehicle
(apart from my lawn-mower) in, Jeeze, it's been twenty-five
years (time flies when you're having fun)!

But I've gotten plenty of rides from other drivers in their
vehicles, some of them big gas-guzzling SUVs & luxury cars,
so I'm equally complicit in fossil-fuel consumption, hence
the air pollution and global-warming it has contributed to.

However, I live near the 14,000-foot Colorado Divide here in
beautiful central Colorado, USA. The winters up here where I
live on the eastern slope about 7350' elevation are typically
fairly mild, a few blizzards here and there, but nothing like
the ski areas like Vail, Aspen and the like. Hell, it bumped
70 degrees F today in the shade here earlier this afternoon!
Indian summer is common where I live, and I do prefer warmer
temperatures, so global warming is totally fine by me. Bring
it on! I wouldn't mind growing some Pineapple, Coconuts, Sugar
Cane and other tropical produce right here in my own back yard.
As it is, sub-zero overnight lows will soon be headed my way...

And so-called "alternative" fuels are in limited production
at present. I thought Schwarzenegger's recent photo-op in the
hydrogen-powered Hummer at the hydrogen recharging station was
totally excellent, but it's going to take time to transition to
alternative forms of power. Retooling automobile manufacturing
facilities is expensive and typically slow as thick molasses.
And hyper-technologies like zero-point energy, anti-gravity etc.
are too dangerous to be allowed to fall into the hands of those
who wish to do us harm, Al-Qaeda for example. Everybody knows
such technologies exist, but few realize what a security threat
they could present if researched and implemented into a weapon.
We've got enough problems with keeping conventional high-energy
nuclear weapons out of the hands of the rabidly-insane Jihadist
terrorists as it is.

So for now, oil, coal, natural gas, and developing hydrogen is
about it. Solar panels are expensive and don't last very long.
Passive solar energy works great if it helps to heat your house
in the cold winter (e.g., I personally built my own house with
nothing but windows all along its open valley south exposure),
but again, how do you propose to implement any alternate power
technology without first considering its safety, practicality,
affordability, short- & long-term consequences to the economy,
and again, could terrorists use it to create mega-lethal WMDs?
Wind power is pretty good, but is very loud, so must be built
in remote areas or off-shore, and can adversely upset weather
patterns like reducing rainfall for crops, or flooding them
too much. Nuclear power is verily practical hence is in wide-
spread use. What to do with the spent fuel is another matter.
Launching it en masse into deep space might work--but what if
the rocket failed? Most commoners fail to consider the *BIG*
picture, and not only regarding energy, but especially about
the past and future as to comprehend wholly in the *present*.

Merry Christmas!
Daniel Joseph Min
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