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Pastimes : No Mideast Oil Products - A petition

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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (232)10/18/2001 5:15:39 AM
From: marcos  Read Replies (2) of 280
 
If there was a clear tech direction in which to move, the public will could certainly be stimulated to proceed in light of current events ..... a hydrogen economy, with Victory Gardens of solar cells on every roof and mini-hydro projects all over the hills, high-school kids figuring out the harnessing of wave power on every shore ... that's as far as i get, not being a techie ... might not be the way to go though, maybe something entirely new will come along, or not, or some bandaid 'solution' make the motivation seem to go away

Things can certainly be accomplished at times like these ... for hours i've been reading this page - members.iinet.net.au
'PLANE PRODUCTION. Throughout the war Great Britain produced a total of 185,000 planes. The US produced a total of 297,200 planes. '
... that would be a lot of airplanes today, imagine how many it was in the 1940s ... the canadian figure may be wrapped into the british there, don't know, but the oldtimers here talk of making one day cooking pots or car parts or whatever and wham next day they were cranking out Lancasters, with kids out collecting the previous pots to get the aluminium ... they had a clear direction
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