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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (127661)	3/29/2004 2:15:40 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Energy Independence. Impossible. We cannot cut our oil consumption in half suddently without major, major depression and dislocation, and even if we could, it would make no difference because demand is ramping up all through Asia - and their economies are connected directly to ours through globalization. Wake up and look at today's global economy. Energy Independence is not impossible. I didn't say suddenly. There are no quick fixes. Wake up, we have been using F16s to try and kill terrorists for a decade and it hasn't worked. The global economy is in trouble if it is dependent on oil. Energy diversification will take decades. We just lost 100 billion and 3000 lives because we waited. Do you propose we wait and lose a trillion and a million lives? Waiting doesn't make the situation better and it certainly doesn't make the problem go away. The failure to act in the past is no justification for failure to act today. What are you saying? If we can't cut oil consumption 50 percent over night then the answer is to move full speed ahead and increase consumption and further our dependence? I hope you understand it is not an unlimited resource. Without action the world will go into depression and most likely a resource war. The time to act is now while our economy is still strong.