> Steve wrote:
>

>> On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:02:22 -0400, Jeffrey Turner
>> localnet.com> wrote:
>>
>>

>>>Steven L. wrote:
>>>

>>>>[
>>>>Al Gore's own website estimates that his proposals would cost between
>>>>$1.5 TRILLION and $3.0 TRILLION dollars to implement. Basically we
>>>>would need to take apart the United States of America, scrap trillions
>>>>of dollars of existing infrastructure and real estate, and put it back
>>>>together again in a whole new way. And the restructured America would
>>>>*necessarily* be operating less efficiently than it is now, because the
>>>>government will have simply mandated hundreds of billions of dollars
>>>>worth of changes which the free market could never have chosen on its
>>>>own.

>>>
>>>Has anyone calculated the cost of coastal regions being inundated by
>>>rising sea levels? I suspect it dwarfs $3 trillion.

>>
>> Not to mention the cost of the sky falling....

>
> Yeah, imagine thinking that as the oceans heat up, the water will expand
> and the water level will rise.
>
> --Jeff

>
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> is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud,
> in order that there may be no rain. -Leo Tolstoy