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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (76908)	6/1/2010 11:42:15 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

"he is also an honest, intelligent reporter above all else." You mistake intelligence with knowledge, which he severely lacks. Send him this Message 26580464 Then, tell him to sell his fucking car and walk everywhere. Then you will be my hero. == "I’d like to see the creation of a second Manhattan Project that would lead us in a few years to an environment in which alternative fuels are abundant, effective and affordable" So would I...ain't gonna happen...too late for that now. Fasten yer seat belts and check yer airbags. Oh, ManProj is thinking too small; we need a WW2 effort. We had oil, back in those days.

To: koan who wrote (76908)	6/1/2010 1:48:44 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Here is my hero Bob Herbert. If you would like to tear his logic and facts apart I would be very interested. Rememer this fellow is a very liberal African American that was very happy when Obama was eleceted, like al of us. But he is also an honest, intelligent reporter above all else. And I know I cannot write or organize my thoughts with his intelligence, nor have I seen any one else on SI do this well. There is little logic or fact to these comments: "If a bank is too big to fail, it’s way too big to exist. If an oil well is too far beneath the sea to be plugged when something goes wrong, it’s too deep to be drilled in the first place. when we know this: energybulletin.net The first thing we can do is conserve more. That’s the low-hanging fruit in any clean-energy strategy. It’s fast, cheap and easy. It’s something that all Americans, young and old, can be asked to participate in immediately. In that sense, it’s a way of combating the pervasive feelings of helplessness that have become so demoralizing and so destructive to our long-term interests. People have talked about energy conservation for the longest time. But we have dawdled on making vehicles more fuel-efficient and weatherizing our homes and insisting that commercial buildings be more energy efficient, and so on. Turn those thermostats down a couple of degrees in the winter and up in the summer. Figure out ways to have a little fun while doing it. We also need a carbon tax. The current crisis is the perfect opportunity for our political leaders to explain to the public why this is so important and what benefits would come from it. Above all, I’d like to see the creation of a second Manhattan Project that would lead us in a few years to an environment in which alternative fuels are abundant, effective and affordable. We are a pathetically weak player in that game right now. All good ideas but they are not enough and/or will take too long to implement to counteract this: energybulletin.net The truth is cassandra herbert isn't dealing in facts and logic. He's coming from a place of ideology....and ideology tends not to provide the solutions we need.