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To: Greg or e who wrote (6688)2/27/2001 11:32:03 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 82486
 
I suspect if you lived in a desert, and had lot's of oil but no water, the reasonableness of such a tradeoff would quickly dawn on you.

Well, yeah, situationally. But I live in a world where drinking water is all over the place, or at least it was until fairly recently, and oil is expensive and hazardous to get. Water and air are the two most basic of human needs. It is absurd is destroy our source of cheap and plentiful water unnecessarily with a Marie-Antoinette-like dismissal about how we can always burn oil to make fresh water from salt.

Karen



To: Greg or e who wrote (6688)2/27/2001 12:15:39 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 82486
 
It especially doesn't make sense to use oil when you are in a desert. You should be thinking solar. I sure don't want the Egyptians using nukes to desalinate water. Anybody hear of nuke proliferation?


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