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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: T L Comiskey who wrote (8165)	11/16/2006 5:43:33 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 36917

Hi Tim. You should take King George II's thoughts with a grain of salt. I can imagine why he would compared oil with cocaine as being addictive substances. I suppose some see him as a guiding light in their lives, and if you are one of them, good for you. I like some of his ideas too, such as cutting taxes on dividends. But I didn't like the Iraq invasion and some of his other ideas. In fact, oil isn't addictive. King George II was habituated to ethanol consumption, and perhaps other brain-altering substances, so he is perhaps attuned excessively to the idea of addiction, as though our decisions about our "addictions" are things out of our control. Maybe that's why he's so keen on a "Higher Authority" aka "Go-" to stop his "addictions" and help him out with other decisions. People are not addicted to oil. They buy dirty great SUVs because they want them, not because they are addicted to oil. They can much more easily buy a bicycle. You are quite right that "junkies" volunteer to buy their "pushers'" products. Nobody forces them to pay up. They choose to do so because they like the results. As soon as they decide they don't like the results, they'll stop paying the money. Note that deciding they don't like the results is different from telling somebody, including themselves, that they don't like the results [people are notoriously hypocritical in their verbal behaviour]. Mqurice PS: Keep in mind that King George II is an oil president from Texas, so it suits his interests to have oil as an addictive substance. He doesn't want you to stop using it. His oil industry buddies need LOTS of it used.