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To: thames_sider who wrote (674)	3/2/2002 6:20:27 AM
From: SirRealist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

>>If you only added some awareness of environmental problems and/or resource limitations, you might merit the added compliment of pinhead. Apparently it is pinheaded to believe in less than an infinite supply of oil, atmosphere or unexploited land.<< Oh yeah, I've long been a proponent of energy conservation and alternate energy technologies, to the point that I briefly pursued an academic discipline that would have led to a degree in energy-efficient architecture. But again, I don't leap onto every conservationist bandwagon demanding the survival of every snail darter and ugly bug on the planet. I've largely viewed a conservation ethic to fit well into the conservative philosophy and have friends on both extremes who regard conservation as important. I don't believe government regulation is the end-all and be-all in this area either. If the government quit subsidizing certain energy sources and permitted a truly free marketplace to sort it out, I think we'd be much further ahead than we've gotten thus far. Government can play a role, as it has in raising awareness of toxic pollutants and in compelling dirty companies to clean up their messes. But that's only because most ordinary Joes can't match the company expenditures on litigators in time to protect themselves and their families from the harm. That, too, is not Libertarian, though ending energy subsidies is. --Kev@finite.duh Btw, I should note that I make no claim to moral, mental or political supremacy, so I don't have to carry the weight of such shells on my turtleback. Thus, I reserve the right to toss up the occasional rotten porkchop before a pack of wild hyenas on the far left or right, simply to sustain my need for amusement at the heights they'll jump and the silly yowls that'll result. As near as I can tell, silliness, satire and sarcasm have not been outlawed.... yet. And when silliness is outlawed, only inlaws will be whoopie-cushioned.