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To: RetiredNow who wrote (2087)	8/29/2008 11:20:16 AM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

The big question is what are we going to do about becoming energy independent. The United States is not going to become "energy independent" for many decades, if ever. You guys are really good at misdirection LOL!! Pot calling the kettle black. The moonbat and ecofreak mantra of "windmills and ouija boards" will "get us off nasty old oil" is just about as connected to reality as Santa and the Tooth Fairy. The fact is, and what you statist lefties seem incapable of grasping, is that we need all energy sources that work, and that an unencumbered market, not the government picking and choosing (ie: corn to ethanol, etc), is the only hope we have of averting truly crippling energy shortages in the future..

To: RetiredNow who wrote (2087)	8/29/2008 11:22:30 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

Who cares? The big question is what are we going to do about becoming energy independent. Excuse me.. apparently you cared enough to make a biased statement that attempted to exonerate Democrats from our energy problems, while trying to make it appear the Republicans were responsible. Because the carbon fuels industry — big oil and coal — have a 50-year lease on the Republican Party, and they are drilling it for everything it's worth. That's the problem here Mindmeld.. Partisan POLITICS instead of pragmatic answers.. But you are right in your belated response that we shouldn't "care" who's responsible, but that we recognize the problem, the repercussions, and make a concerted effort to resolve it. And those decisions are going to mean motivating explorers to increase additional domestic supplies of oil and NG, while building upon a long-term plan to replace them with alternative fuels and energy sources. I don't like playing "tit-for-tat" politics, but I'm pretty good at when I want to be.. However, I'm a pragmatist at heart.. Proud Graduate from the school of "whatever works best" and working on my lifelong program of post-graduate degree in Oxymoronics, with my eye on a Phd in Common Sense.. So Mindmeld, can we just agree that both parties are responsible for this energy situation the US finds itself in?? Hawk