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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (10387)	12/13/2002 10:58:08 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

what is the federal stimulus incentive for windfarms? I don't know, I used that as an example of environmentalist pressures leading to changes which I think are better than just drilling for ever decreasing oil deposits. I'm even more of a fan of offshore windfarms. block production avenues constantly The ebb and flow of development is an asymetrical operation. It is much easier and cheaper to wreck an area than to fix it back up. Abandoned resource facilities do not revert back easily to either their former state or to any state that humans tend to find pleasant. Whether it be mines, wells, dumps, or roads there is profit to be made while building and running these facilities and none when the resource runs out or suffers from a price decline. Given this asymetrical behavior it is only prudent to be very cautious about these ventures. This, after all, is our property. In most cases in the past a private company extracts the resource, earns the profit and spins off a subsidiary which then goes bankrupt leaving the public with much less than it had before. The oil in Alaska will be there in a hundred years if necessary, there is no reason to panic deal with a shortage that will have to be dealt with someday anyway. American companies face economic disaster if they ignore this trend or assume they can lobby it away. usatoday.com Within a matter of months, Toyota will consistently be selling more cars in this country than any other brand," TP

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (10387)	12/13/2002 11:07:16 AM
From: crdesign	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

'get ready for a colossal shortage and price jump in heating bills, etc.' ouch! Please tell me the price jumps already arrived in Philadelphia. $1.05 per CF is painful in a 150 year old home. Jim, you slept here last year...once. To your dismay, not with my wife. To this day your evil presence lingers on the 3rd floor. How's that for congeniality? wink. Until February '03 our NG heating bill may exceed our allowable maximum monthly 401k contribution. Tim