To: Sea Otter who wrote (473298 ) 2/21/2012 6:08:58 PM From: Maurice Winn 3 Recommendations Respond to Please stop attributing things to me that I did not write. I didn't write that you favoured ethanol. I quoted you, here again for ease of reference: < . < Encourage and fund alternatives (much like we've encouraged and funded oil exploration, through tax credits, subsidies etc ), encourage R&D, and gradually encourage marketable alternatives. I'm about as hard core market-based as a gal can get ... > > Then I pointed out some shovel-ready opm alt-energy projects including ethanol which have taken $billions, as examples of why governments should NOT get involved with investment in such things. Please apologize for making things up. And your point was? > To labour the point, shovel-ready opm and your comment above were the point. I explained why your idea, as stated above and in your post from which I got that, is bung. Governments should NOT be doing what you wrote they should do. Which, you can see in that quote above from you. My point was that your idea of "encouraging and funding alternatives, etc...." is a really bad idea. I gave examples. And pointed out that you wanting shovel-ready opm is NOT something that a hard-core market-based gal would want. You wanting Big Government to fund alt-energy is commie. As for the rest of your post, it's just more of the same from you. Irrelevant to the topic and just an excuse so you can argue ceaselessly > The topic was exactly what you posted - opm for alt-energy to save the world from CO2 and OPEC and middle east mayhem. I explained that there is loads of methane and Athabasca tar right there in North America. So there's no need for silly alt-energy ideas. However I (unlike you, apparently) have a job and have no further time to engage with you now. In fact, your quota is up for this year. > You are right, I have not had a job for many years [having been highly successful in investments]. I last had a "real" job briefly in the early 1990s. But I do have plenty to do and had better go and do it. If my next "big thing" is as successful as my CDMA, you will hear about it. And use it.
