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To: Keith Feral who wrote (171132)	9/22/2005 2:54:38 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

Bob, the idea of delaying children learning things is nuts. I was driving from the day I turned 15, and bought my own motorbike a week before. It was an old BSA Bantam Major and cost me 65 pounds. I earned about a pound a week from my newspaper round and bits of money from other things. I drove my parent's car any chance I got and if it wasn't family business [such as a Sunday drive] I would put petrol in the car to cover my usage. Children learn better young. Lengthy infantilism leads to drugs, booze and dissolution. Young people should get lots of responsibility and self-determination at a younger, not older age, when the can learn and integrate their experiences into their psyche much better. One doesn't expect to start playing golf at age 18 and become a world champion. Any top person in anything has to start YOUNG. The younger the better usually. Waiting until people are 18, then turning them loose on the road after a little bit of road experience, just when they are getting hold of booze, and are full of their own importance their abilities is a recipe for disaster. Driving should be a performance-determined activity. Those who can do it should be able to drive, those who can't shouldn't. Some who are 12 will be perfectly fine and some who are 50 will not be suitable even after 30 years of training. On oil production costs, Iraq can pump oil for about $1 a barrel [when the coast is clear and the wars are over]. Oil will not be $50 a barrel [in 2005 dollars] for long. There are too many competitors wanting to get their share of the megaloot. Mqurice