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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (145760)4/21/2002 10:38:38 PM
From: Joe NYC  Read Replies (1) of 1574175
 
Ted,

Why, when most people are not voluntarily making the effort and any attempt to pass higher taxes are oil are short circuited?

You don't need most of the poeple to have a substantial effect. As I said, 50% people cutting their consumption by 50% will cut the overall consumption by 25%. Are you saying that less than 50% of the US population agrees with the need to cut oil consumption?

What kind of support do you think your idea (of cutting oil consumption) really has?

Again, why not make voluntary rationing mandatory

Because doing something on voluntary basis is superior to compulsion.

Let me turn around the question: Why mandate when voluntary action can work? Is there anything about forcing people to do something against they disagree with appealing?

I think I know what's really behind your preference to mandatory action, but I would rather hear it from you.

In the future, if its needed and we could extract without damaging the environment there at all, I would go for it.

I have held this opinion ever since it came up (more or less). I don't know why we have to go through all the confrontational posts (oil barons etc.) if there isn't really that much disagreement in the first place.

If the need was really there today, I think it could be extracted with normal level of risk that we already accept elsewhere, but I don't think there is a need to extract it now, since we are getting all the oil we need from elsewhere, and we get this oil at low prices.

Joe
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