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To: tejek who wrote (183578)	3/3/2004 2:42:00 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1575624

More. If done quickly a lot more. I never said it should done quickly. Quickly is relative. Maybe I shouldn't have used that term. In this case 10 years would be quickly, even 20 would probably have to be considered quickly. 50 years would probably not qualify as "quickly". You ignore the fact that no one required us to intervene in Iraq. No I'm not really debating Iraq so that idea isn't very relevant to the conversation. Iraq was only mentioned in terms of a cost. The requirement (or lack thereof) to pay the cost for the intervention in Iraq is important when discussing Iraq but not when discussing global warming. Yes we where comparing the costs in Iraq to that of global warming but a debate about Iraq shouldn't be inserted in to this conversation. It's a distraction. We have had that debate and continue to have that debate in other posts. That is one of the weakest arguments I have ever heard come from your side of the table. You would spend $300 billion on another country but you are want to nickel and dime our energy independence. Energy independence would cost a lot more then $300bil, and even if we reduced our oil needs to what we produce in the US Middle Eastern oil would still be strategically important because many of our allies and trading partners need it, because it provides money to potentially dangerous countries and regimes and because US oil production is declining so even if we could reduce oil use by the amount currently imported we would have to start importing again in the future. Basically I don't think energy independence is at this time a realistic and useful goal so I won't support spending enormous amounts of money to try and achieve it. Tim

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