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To: steve harris who wrote (381034)	4/28/2008 5:48:00 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584936

I wish I was still in college. I'm almost 3 decades beyond that now. The first most important rule of terrorism is funding. Choke off the funding and you choke off their lifeblood. Terrorism has to be equated with cancer. Cancer needs blood to proliferate. Terrorism needs money. When we spending hundreds of billions on oil, alot of that money goes to the Middle East potentates, who then make large donations to sham Islamic charities who then funnel that money to terrorists. Ergo. Eliminate our need to import oil by becoming energy independent and we do extreme damage to the finances of Middle East rulers and to terrorists. It's not easy to become energy independent, but the technology exists today to get us there, if we just had the political will to do it. And yes, biofuels, ethanol in particular are red herrings that should be avoided. I personally think that nuclear, solar, and wind power, a whole new digital electric grid, distributed electric power generations at the home site, combined with fully electric cars are the way to get us to energy independence. There is no silver bullet. It will take a basket of approaches to get us there, including conservation measures.