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To: TimF who wrote (8646)	5/28/2009 4:33:37 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

The biggest reason I can think of is peak oil. The enviros will give you the reason of GHG emissions, but I'm more interested in the adverse effects of peak oil to our economy and the adverse effects of oil dependency is having on our national security, since we pump so much money into the Middle East, Russia, and Venezuela with our oil dollars. Those reasons are the burning platform for urgency. Peak oil more than anything else should convince anyone knowledgeable about oil price trajectories that we need to create some substitutes for oil quickly if we are to escape economic disaster similar to what happened in the 1970s but more permanent.