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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (278498)	3/5/2006 5:02:52 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 1577940

Actually, Reagan terminated all those clean fuels projects. If they had been allowed to grow and flourish we'd be a lot better off now. Carter had a huge solar operation which Reagan completely scrapped. So next time you hear someone talking about how great Ronnie was, remember he had a dark side. Very much so. He was also a crony of Big Oil which feared solar being cheap, renewable and clean. Anyway, that was 25 years ago. No use crying over split milk. The task ahead is a difficult one. It will mean breaking a lot of bad old habits and thnking in progrssive news ways. Good old-fashioned American ingenuity. We saved and conserved during WWII and defeated fascism. We can do the same this coming decade or two and defeat gasoline addiction. Environmentalists these days are willing to go with nuclear to make hydrogen fuel. The lesser of two evils. We just don't trust the Cheney types in charge of that lobby. Nukes, Big Oil and other energy carels have to be more accountable and regulated. Enron was the champion of de-regulation and like the S+L deregulation, look what happened. Yes, you tax oil, then you take that money and give it to those to save energy as incentives. The carrot and the stick. You also fund research and you stop Big Oil from gouging. Right now all that extra research and incentive money is going into Exxon's pocket. They are skimming big-time. It is a huge-huge ripoff scheme. Lower the speed limits a bit, but ask for a voluntary slowing down as well. Get people to pitch in and set good examples. So far as I can tell, the only losers in this would be the gas gougers, the Arabs and energy hogs who burn, guzzle and waste. Even Bill O'Reilly agrees with me on all this so I know it's not just a liberal-conservative issue, it's a global common sense issue. Also, grassroots efforts across the board. But first and foremost, the GOP needs to boot out its current Big Oil and pollution lobby masters. Until they're neutralized not much can be done on a national level.