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To: Taro who wrote (324626)	2/4/2007 1:19:17 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1576601

"Creating laws to prohibit toxic spills into the environment in no way excludes the possibility of de regulating the oil industry IMO." But then they still have incentives to be involved in the political process. The environmental regulations are a cost of doing business. However, petrochemicals are commodities, and thus, low margin. If a company can get itself exempt from some of the regulations, then they have an advantage over their competitors. So there is a lot of jockeying around trying to get said exemptions.

To: Taro who wrote (324626)	2/4/2007 9:44:32 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 1576601

Hi Taro, I would like to share with you a brief reflection about the unholy alliance of Christian faith and ideological/political beliefs. Our Christian faith is above all ideologies and isms. Pure Christian faith embraces all that is truthful and good no matter where it is found. By the same token, it rejects all that is evil and false. When one becomes an ideologue, he limits himself as a Christian and alienates all that is good in an opposite ideology. Christ and the Christian faith is the fullness of the truth. No political or economic invention of the human mind can capture and embrace this fullness. Human ideologies always reflect man's weakness fallen nature. The weakness and evil in extreme ideologies such as Communism, Capitalism and Zionism is obvious. They are however, far less obvious in the opposite ideologies of say conservatism and liberalism. A Christian should avoid ideologies if he does not want to become crystallized in human error and ieffective in the Kingdom of God. Emile

To: Taro who wrote (324626)	2/4/2007 9:45:34 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576601

Hi Taro, I would like to share with you a brief reflection about the unholy alliance of Christian faith and ideological/political beliefs. Our Christian faith is above all ideologies and isms. Pure Christian faith embraces all that is truthful and good no matter where it is found. By the same token, it rejects all that is evil and false. When one becomes an ideologue, he limits himself as a Christian and alienates all that is good and true in an opposite ideology. Christ and the Christian faith is the fullness of the truth. No political or economic invention of the human mind can capture and embrace this fullness. Human ideologies always reflect man's weakness fallen nature. The weakness and evil in extreme ideologies such as Communism, Capitalism and Zionism is obvious. They are however, far less obvious in the opposite ideologies of say conservatism and liberalism. A Christian should avoid ideologies if he does not want to become crystallized in human error and ineffective in the Kingdom of God. Emile