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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: tejek who wrote (145373)4/18/2002 7:34:14 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1574561
 
Tim, what would be the best way to put a dent in our oil dependency is to conserve our oil Here in the West water is short and so we are required to conserve it from time to time

The state and local governments make people conserve water why subsidizing it for industrial and esp. agricultural use. If you had a free market in water with the price allowed to float with supply and demand you would not need the government enforced conservation.

We need to start doing the same with oil especially now, because any new drilling will not get us real relief for at least 3-5 years.

Oil doesn't have a shortage in the same sense of those water shortages because its price is allowed to float and it doesn't get heavy subsidies in the US. If oil supplies get tighter or demand grows the price will rise which will serve to decrease demand.

Tim
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