Re: Samuelson on OIl Drilling

"Geo" <taxpayer779@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Apr 30, 4:16 pm, "Sid9" <s...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Larry Hewitt" <larryh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > "John Galt" <whoisjohng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >>> It's in our interest to use up everybody else's oil before our own.
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>> >> It's not in our best interest to lower our standard of living in the
>> >> process, which is what the result will be.
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>> > It is, in fact, very easy to _raise_ our standards of living while
>> > reducing oil consumption.
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>> > For example, as much as 5% of domestic electric consummption is the 
>> > result
>> > of instant on fetures in consumer electronics or consumer electronics

>> > that
>> > are always on (cable modem are surprisingly greedy).
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>> > Using existing technology to change this as new electronics are 
>> > purchased
>> > would save the average family $12 a month. And at the same time it 
>> > would
>> > eliminate the need for 2 or 3 large electric generating plants. Or
the
>> > freed up power could be used to run 200,000 all electric cars.
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>> > Larry
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>> >> JG
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>> >>>     - = -
>> >>> Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus,
>> >>> BioStrategist
>> >>>    http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vjp2/vasos.htm
>> >>>  ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice.  Everything fully
>> >>> disclaimed.}---
>> >>>   [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive 
>> >>> guards]
>> >>> [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Remorse begets zeal] [Windows is for
>> >>> Bimbos]
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>> Replace every incandescent lamp with a CFL.....how much will that save?
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>> Solar heat domestic hot war in our southern states...how much will that
>> save?
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>> Restore the pre-Reagan energy saving rules...how much will that save?
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>> I'm sure there's a lot more that can be done on the conservation side
>> without reducing our quality of life.
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>> We only need the leader****p...we surely do not have it in the 
>> Republicans.
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> You know something, if you want to use a CFL, solar heat, or any other
> conservation method go right ahead and do it.  Why on earth, in a free
> society, do you need the govt telling you what kind of lightbulb you
> need?  Really, is there no end to what you think govt should be doing
> for you?

Ah, that ole libertarian crap.

I wanna do what I wanna do and noone can stop me.

No matter what damage I do to the property of others, what rights of
others 
I trample.

Everyone else should just shut up and let me do my  thing.

Yet when others try  this you whine and piss your pants.

Larry