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To: RetiredNow who wrote (3205)	11/29/2008 3:48:28 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86352

I wish some economist would calculate the true cost of oil, because right now there are so many indirect costs that we simply don't associate with oil that it makes the current published cost look ridiculously low. If the true cost was known, then alternatives would look significantly cheaper. But they don't want to look at any of the negative externalities--that is verboten in their mindset. And talking about something that may be decades away--and in their mind, that is effectively forever--is mere "speculation." Nevermind that CO2 was experimentally established as a greenhouse gas back in 1859. And nevermind that many canaries are singing pretty loudly in the polar regions. It is all a nonsensical myth or it is all "natural variability," which we can't do anything about.