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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (387374)	5/30/2008 1:47:47 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574890

Environmentalists think that by restricting fossil fuels, we'll speed the development of alternative energy, but that's a simple-minded point-of-view that doesn't take into account the realities of the American economy. I assume you mean coal fired plants? I'm not sure you are talking about your classic whacko tree hugger; here in Florida Republican Gov. Crist just pressured the utilities to cancel 3 new coal fired plants.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (387374)	5/30/2008 5:13:34 PM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 1574890

Well, environmentalists have traditionally been a little kooky and they don't look at all the other competing priorities, which is their biggest rationality flaw. Fortunately, they don't have all the say in our priorities, but the flipside is that I'm glad they have some say, because I do think we can't ignore the environment entirely in favor of commerce either. Ask China about the acid rain in some of their cities or the encroaching desert. They will tell you that figuring out ways to manage the environment is becoming increasingly important to them. Regardless, we need to focus on diversifying our economic dependence on the oil industry. It isn't good when the economy can be hobbled because of the scarcity of supply in one industry. I'd like to see us have a flexible basket of commodities and technologies that allows our economy to pivot between oil and other alternatives, so that when oil prices get high we move to something else and then back to oil when oil comes back down. That kind of flexibility and resilience will make commodity price spikes less impactful on ordinary Americans. In addition, it will make us less susceptible to the whims of crazy Middle Eastern potentates and their terrorist vassals.