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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: pgerassi who wrote (136953)5/18/2001 1:35:23 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1579851
 
The only nitwits are those who bash plans without reading them. You do not know how much energy this nation consumes. You ever look at the consumption figures?

Pete, I know how much we consume and that's why there is so much room to conserve.

CNBC has had this Saudi prince on for the past week...he claims he "lives reasonably" which includes 100 cars, 14 elevators in his house, and a boat that costs 6 million a year to maintain while he only uses it two weeks out of the year. I suspect he would be aghast if he was told to cut back.

Similarly, I think that's how many Americans feel when told they may have to conserve energy. We are one of the biggest consumers of energy as well as one of the most wasteful in the world.....we are piglets much like the Saudi prince. Only difference is is that we are short of energy and we need to cut back.

Conservation is just not possible beyond a certain point. If you keep turning your thermostat down every winter more and more to conserve, soon you would have burst pipes, and lose a lot more money.

Pete, listen real carefully.....you live on a small planet with finite resources and a hugely growing population. Deal with it.....I did not make up the rules. If you wanted to be a proliferate or a spendthrift, you should have been born in the 19th Century.

ted
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