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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (66685)	5/19/2008 12:28:06 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542788

The economic threat posed by dogmatic adherence to the doomsday scenarios is the biggest economic threat we currently face. I disagree. I think that publicly funded medical care is a greater threat. The reason I say that is, with GW costs, we can cut our losses as any time. Once we get into publicly funded medical care, there's no way out. We could no more stop it than we could stop SS.

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (66685)	5/19/2008 12:53:51 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 542788

Heck - we have poster here who thinks $4.00 gasoline is too cheap. Now - I ask you? Anyone who takes that position must really want to cut emissions. There are even more drastic ways to cut emissions if the priority is high enough. We can force our population into cities, which reduces our carbon footprints dramatically. We can reduce population. That'll work. I don't think anyone has seriously proposed that yet. A more modest approach would be to remove from use all vehicles that don't meet some elevated standard. Four dollar plus gasoline seems pretty puny compared to those.