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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (134746)	3/21/2001 10:12:34 PM
From: TGPTNDR	Respond to of 1571090

Jim,Re: <Of course if every one would just stop guzzling petroleum products it wouldn't matter. Fat chance.> I'm massively conservative, as you well know. Still, there are some places where the economics tilt so far toward conservation that only a short term idiot(Like Scumbria's landlord) would not spend the money of their own accord. Those people should be convinced, by taxation, or confiscation, that the 'common good' requires their attention. In My Opinion Only! How can one justify a 'fixed maximum rate' for electricity in California as opposed to a 'consumption/occupant' or consumption/someDamnThing? -- even in the context of buying votes? And the Pacific coast has been careful to keep itself apart from the east in terms of taxation. But the worm is turning, IMO. BA is only the first. tgptndr

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (134746)	3/21/2001 10:24:19 PM
From: stribe30	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571090

Jim.. you must have had a bad day today... I've never seen you this vindictive. I guess my conciliatory PM to you was staunchly rejected. I'm sorry if my debating with you has caused hard feelings However.. to answer your shots at my nation.,,I was a young boy when the baby seals issue came up initially.. I never did support it.. and when it was publicized by Greenpeace.. I recall a strong public backlash to it by a majority of Canadians helped get it banned (also by international pressure from Europe). And overfishing.. look who's calling the kettle black.. Alaska is one of the worst for overfishing the salmon and is the chief contributor to why that species is severely reduced.. on the east coast..I cant quarrel that the Maritime fishermen helped to overfish it.. but so did other nations.. the US included.. the EU (particularly the Spanish) still do it,, with their undersized nets that catch everything.. not just the fish they want. Is Canada perfect and does it do everything enironmentally I wish it would? Nope.. but I believe I have a good case in saying its better at it then its southern neighbours...