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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (186356)5/9/2006 9:20:31 AM
From: Lou Weed  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Maurice,

You've gotta be a big fan of Douglas Adams?? You're writing style and reasoning are very similar. Very clever econometric analysis and a fabulous "taking the mickey" quotient. Keep up the good work.

MON.



To: Maurice Winn who wrote (186356)5/9/2006 12:00:33 PM
From: Don Hurst  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
>>" PS: It's not just the value of the SUVs, it's the value they produce as well. They can produce a LOT of CO2 and maybe that would be just enough to avoid the next glaciation. These things are not linear and the straw that breaks the camel's back could tip us into freezing. I would NOT want to abandon the SUVs and be responsible for not just the loss of the SUVs, but also the initiation of a glaciation which could cost a LOT more than 1 x 5 year old child. I know this economic, engineering and environmental econometric analysis is too complex for most to understand, but hopefully you can grasp the basic ideas. We sophisticated international financial relativity theorists have trouble explaining our complex ideas to the layman [and lay-woman]. "<<

Yup Maurice, your caffeine level is getting low again.



To: Maurice Winn who wrote (186356)5/9/2006 2:51:59 PM
From: geode00  Respond to of 281500
 
That's ok Maurice, I already knew you'd let the five year old child burn to death. Of course, by the time you went through your convoluted 'reasoning' you'd be burned to death as well.

What's really interesting Maurice is that you'd save someone else's SUVs (which is odd because you're doing yeoman's work without a contract and no guarantee of reward) but never bothered to wonder if the child were your own grandkid.

Hmmmmmmm.