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In just a few moments I will be driving my Honda Civic on an interstate that will be a sea of SUVs. Vaughn Well I would sure look strange trying to get out of the mountains with a deer strapped onto a Honda Civic. I do understand your argument, alot of soccer moms and dads need a 4x4 like another hole in the head. Myself I have an 84 Ford F-150 4x4, with a built up 351 Windsor and C-6 trannie. Not built up for racing but for pulling and yanking! Look at the bright side, if I get stuck in snow or mud or what have you I just pull myself out with my huge WARN winch. Hee Hee, I had to have something to mount on that big brush guard besides deer spotter lights and my "American by Birth, Southern By The Grace Of God" tag! Patrick |
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"Morgans" writes:
We wouldn't have so many unpaved roads that need SUV's. Oh, puh-leeeeeeze! "Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy." Dick Cheney, 2001. |
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Malcolm Austin wrote:
Hi Jim, sorry I touched a raw nerve there! Without wanting to ramp up the "discussion" my comment would be: - Your argument really seems to say that, dam the rest of the world, we are going to use all the energy we want. We did similar things in the past, as with high sulphur coal for power generation. The result was lots of acidified lakes and dead trees east of us. Attitudes will have to change, or your very dry Death Valley will cover rather more of the country than it currently does.. Death Valley is currently covered in wild flowers. I was there last week, beautiful. The world is changing so fast these days, you can't even rely on a time tested metaphor. Shawn |
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On 2005-03-31 08:11, Grumman-581 wrote:
"Matt Barrow" wrote in message ... Considering that we have anywhere from 40 to 200 years of known reserves, and that breakthroughs happen with considerable frequency, I'd say whoever wrote the article was pushing an agenda. The history of mankind has been laced with such hysterics. Ahhh, but it sure would be nice to end terrorism by no longer needing oil from the Middle East and we could let them go back to being the POOR camel ****in' Bedoins that they have historically been... And your new transport would be a horse & carriage instead of the SUV? /Rolf |
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Malcolm Austin wrote:
PS. Oh, and I hear your not over sexed anymore, whys that ???????? Something called "political correctness." Whistle at a girl these days and you wind up in court, and God help you if you make a pass at someone at work. George Patterson Whosoever bloweth not his own horn, the same shall remain unblown. |
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Sounds like I "crashed and burned" on that one then?
(doesn't it make you happy there's no engine and fuel in most gliders!) Malcolm PS Apologies to the readers for going distinctly way, way off message here... "Shawn" sdotcurry@bresnananotherdotnet wrote in message ... Malcolm Austin wrote: Hi Jim, sorry I touched a raw nerve there! Without wanting to ramp up the "discussion" my comment would be: - Your argument really seems to say that, dam the rest of the world, we are going to use all the energy we want. We did similar things in the past, as with high sulphur coal for power generation. The result was lots of acidified lakes and dead trees east of us. Attitudes will have to change, or your very dry Death Valley will cover rather more of the country than it currently does.. Death Valley is currently covered in wild flowers. I was there last week, beautiful. The world is changing so fast these days, you can't even rely on a time tested metaphor. Shawn |
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We just aren't hurting enough yet for any change. Business as usual,
until we can't take it anymore.. Then the world will scramble. Whatever happened to fusion? Bill Daniels wrote: "Matt Barrow" wrote in message ... snip Nuclear, anyone? Bill Daniels |
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On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:16:21 GMT, Larry Dighera
wrote: Don't forget about coal. There's a lot of that. I was actually thinking in terms of what's useful to burn for energy in our airplanes. Many industries switched from coal and high sulfur oil to liquid petroleum gas to reduce emissions in the last two or three decades. Their profits are tied to the cost of oil, which is rising rapidly right now. It doesn't matter that we still have an estimated 200 years of oil to use up, it's still a finite reserve, it isn't being magically replaced somehow. At some point in the much nearer future, what is relatively easily tapped right now, will become increasingly more difficult to remove. Something will needed in the future to replace it. Perhaps it will be nuclear (or as GW puts it, newkular) I don't know but the time to think about this is now before it becomes a crisis and the world goes to war over oil. Hmm, going to war over oil... Isn't that, oh nevermind. Corky Scott |
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Malcolm Austin wrote:
...I hear your not over sexed anymore, whys that ???????? It's all relative, cousin. Now that we've seen more of your TV and Movie actors over here we understand that you lot have just been pretending not to be interested in that sort of thing: either that or you've just sent the animals over to us and the regular Brits have stayed home. Jack |
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