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To: stockman_scott who wrote (73391)	5/2/2010 4:18:46 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 149317

Clearly, Scott, this issue is very dear to your heart. I am curious........why do you think Obama came out with the drilling policy he did? From the article you posted: "There are viable alternatives, they are just less convenient in the short term. If we don't make the "convenient" pay the price it really costs us, today in indirect ways, and in the future likely in very direct ways. Of course, today's infrastructure and our way of life is largely organised around cheap oil, and can't be turned around in the short term. But we have to get started. And the only way is to make oil appear to be as expensive in monetary terms as it actually is. We are just coming out of the Great Recession. How can making oil "appear to be expensive" be the appropriate course of action at this particular moment when the last thing the average American needs is added taxation during these difficult times? And yes, it is possible to use the tax revenues generated to put money directly in the pockets of the poorest and hardest hit (like rural populations) AND to channel it into new infrastructure. Interesting but I am not sure what that means.

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