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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (252579)	12/29/2007 10:47:55 AM
From: c.hinton	Respond to of 281500

unfortunately the economy is often wrecked for just that......politicle opportunism One has only to look to the politicle pressures applied to central banks to maintain cheap money(low interest rates).......

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (252579)	12/29/2007 2:26:52 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Now - economic alternate energy supplies are great - for their own reason ONLY! Exactly. Often the "reasoning" seems to run that if we need alternate energy supplies, then Kyoto must somehow make sense. It doesn't. The GW hysteria has blended conservation, anti-pollution measures (which no longer distinguish between CO2 and pollution), alternate energy sources and GW to one mass 'save the planet' hysteria.

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (252579)	12/29/2007 5:42:40 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

"economic alternate energy supplies are great - for their own reason ONLY!" I have very important reasons for supporting them. I would prefer to pass on control of the planet to the next generation with a more sustainable future. I like things to be clean and prefer things like windmills to burning coal. The reality is that we are getting better while much of the world is getting worse. I saw recently that 85% of China's new electricity generation capacity is coming from coal. The country is rich even while the people are relatively poor. If ever there was a case study for a country that should whole heartedly embrace renewable energy it is China. Yet even the Kyoto treaty exempted them.