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Gold/Mining/Energy : PEAK OIL - The New Y2K or The Beginning of the Real End?

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To: bentway who wrote (848)	8/10/2005 9:11:00 AM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) of 1183

Although I am interested as an investor in oil shale, I agree with you about the threat to the landscape. Some people just don't care. I have a friend who is ardently opposed to any sort of drilling in Alaska. But when I mentioned oil shale and Utah she said, "I don't care what they do to Utah." In Matt Simmons's book, there is a memorable anecdote near the beginning, about a meeting between Franklin Roosevelt and Abdul Aziz, the king at that time and also known as Ibn Saud, shortly before the end of the war (and only weeks before Roosevelt's death). Roosevelt told him that with the energy resources in Arabia water could be pumped and the desert made to bloom. The King told Roosevelt that he liked the desert the way it was, that the desert was beautiful. (Page 12) I have another friend with whom I went camping, at one point on the Grand Canyon's South Rim. He is a Wordsworthian nature-lover and comes from a farming family. He looked at the Grand Canyon and every time he did he would say, "To me, it just looks like a terrible case of erosion." Some people just can't appreciate the austere beauty of the dry West.

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