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To: Katelew who wrote (59571)	4/16/2008 2:06:13 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542780

Europe has fully embraced alternative energy sources such as wind and solar and battery powered buses, etc. You're comparing an apple with a train load of apples. Reasonable steps toward energy independence and a clean environment are beneficial and non-crippling. If all we had to do was run the world's buses on clean power, there would be no question of how and whether to proceed. Sure, why not. Doesn't cost much, maybe even saves money, and it will probably fetch some benefit. Let's go. But here's your train load of apples. Al Gore: "Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making." No one has added up the cost or even assessed the feasibility. But it's intuitively obvious that you may not be able to cure in ten years such a catastrophic problem at let alone without catastrophic crippling of the economy and much else. I think you're laboring under a false premise. Whose false premise? I think there's not so much of a false premise as no premise at all. There's this huge leap between "the sky is falling" and some vague but gung-ho "tackling" of GW. Where's the feasibility study? Where's the Gantt chart? Can we fix this? In time? And what's the price tag on a train full of apples? Helter skelter. Every just throw money in the general direction of the problem, and oodles of it.