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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (114163)	6/29/2009 3:03:26 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543271

So if you artificially raise the cost of energy in the USA do you think companies will transfer even more manufacturing jobs overseas? But you aren't artificially raising the price of oil at all. What we have now is oil artificially held cheap subsidized by the government. Add in the real cost of oil - which capitalism should do if we truely believe in REAL capitalism - and oil would be more than green energies. Add in the cost of the wars to protect our oil supplies, add in the extra health related cost and add in the cost to America because we arn't competing in this very significant opportunity and oil would be way more expensive than it is. We could tax it so people would use less and the tax money could reimburse the government for such things as the war - but we have enter this weird world of taxation being somehow evil. And yes, nuclear energy is a part. Lets go after that market too. But why in the world should we not compete in the world for tidal or wind or solar or biomass out of waste or conservation? Some argue against the sanity of this just because it represents the other side. That is sad for America's future.