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To: tejek who wrote (184047)	3/10/2004 11:41:46 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575582

I think it behooves us to have a working plan in place and substantive progress made well before 2030. I think planned economies are less successful and free then free market economies. I have more confidence in market forces adjusting the economy to changes in important commodities then I do with a government plan to make the adjustment. Yes either way the adjustment will cause some pain but government controlled adjustments are likely to cause more pain. You don't get it. That wasted $300 billion could have gotten us well on the road to energy independence. No it could not have. And btw energy independence is not trying to figure out how to stretch our oil and NG supplies but to work diligently in developing cost effective, alternative fuels. Your combining two ideas in to one term. You might believe in both ideas. You might even convince me to agree with both ideas, but even if both ideas are good ideas they are still separate ideas and using the same term for both muddles the debate. Energy independence is being able to produce the energy that we need without importing it. Using alternative fuels is not using oil. Doing the later might help us achieve the former but that doesn't make both ideas the same idea. You've heard the story of the hare and squirrel. The squirrel plans for the winter by storing away nuts. The hare simply hopes for the best. Yes I've heard the story and I don't think the analogy works well in relation to anything I said. We can produce and store "nuts", without having a policy of "nut independence" where we declare that we will not import any nuts. Tim