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To: energyplay who wrote (33691)	7/19/2004 4:52:54 AM
From: schrodingers_cat	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 206110

I think the point is that in France it is possible to build things like TGV lines and nuclear power plants.....in the US we have an out of control environmental movement which threatens to strangle us with regulations and red tape. The industrial infrastructure upon which the US economy depends could not have been built under present environmental rules. As the economy grows that legacy industrial infrastructure is becoming overloaded and is rapidly reaching the point where it can no longer supply the electricity, NG and gasoline which the American people want. The result is rising prices and inflation. Either we start a serious and painful program of conservation measures, or we water down the existing environmental laws to the point where it is possible to build power lines, refineries, off-shore platforms and nuclear waste dumps. The alternative is stagflation as economic growth and jobs are limited by the available energy supply. It's worth asking wether the activities of the environmental groups are actually helping the environment. These guys love talking about "thinking global" and "looking after mother earth." So what has the fight against ANWR done to help the "global" environment? Nothing has been done to reduce consumption, so the oil still has to come from somewhere. All they have done is move production around. Ask yourself if "mother earth" is better off if the oil is produced from the Russian Arctic under Russian environmental rules instead of the American Arctic under US environmental rules. Why not compromise on ANWR in return for higher CAFE standards? After 9/11 the door was open for higher CAFE standards, and yet environmentalists have failed to get any progress on that issue. The explanation , I think, is that many of the so-called environmentalists aren't really environmentalists any more. Their major cause is fund-raising, and they have become sucked into the political game and are nothing more than proxies for the Democratic Party.