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To: willcousa who wrote (64562)	6/24/2002 2:36:38 PM
From: Mike M	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Petroleum is anything but the "holy grail"(your words). Petroleum may be the opiate...but certainly not the grail. Too much dependence on anything is a bad thing and that includes our fuel supply. While wonderfully priced when our suppliers' supplies exceeded demand...that hasn't been the case for some time and isn't moving in that direction any time soon. If it were simply a case of price I might not even care...I don't want my son to be sent thousands of miles away to secure oil so we can fire up a million HVAC's. I also don't want extremists' terrorist activities funded as a byproduct of my petroleum dollars. I read somewhere recently that if one were to remove all the subsidies to oil (and some of the figures may have been a stretch) that cost of gas would be around $5 per gallon. It is time to repair some false assumptions and move on. You aren't the only one to have paid dearly for abortive fuel enterprises...I still have some American Heliothermal (solar) certificates lying around somewhere. I'm not a fan of government taking the initiative either. But someone has to and if private enterprise can't or won't then who else will? Someone has to.