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To: TobagoJack who wrote (24724)	10/30/2002 1:36:38 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

I do not suppose CB can be convinced to switch her Range Rover for a GM SUV:0) I don't know, Jay, she considers me persona non grata. If I've followed correctly, I think she doesn't have a Range Rover. I think she owns the Discovery which is probably a bit more fuel-efficient. I don't know if you followed but we are stupidly continuing our increased reliance on the habit-forming petroleum drug. The latest fuel efficiency figures in the US show a decline once again thanks to SUVs. It's just so damned simple to get the American public to link terrorism, Iraq and the environment into one neat patriotic package designed to reduce our dependence on ME oil that I wonder why it hasn't yet happened. Great politics, too. If Bush were to go on a sane energy policy and tell the public that its goal is not just to help the environment but to also reduce our dependence on the ME and to thereby soothe some of the reasons why we're being attacked by terrorists, and, oh, by the way, prevent the likelihood of us having to do anything about nuts like Saddam as he would be primarily a local problem which the Russians and the French need to deal with a lot more than we do (though we would of course still support Israel), I should think that a great upswell of right wingers, left wingers, and Greens joined together by mutual interest would be hard to beat. But what do I know. The forces arrayed against such a policy are big, too. Big Oil for starters.