Fighting that crazy trillion $ war for oil is absurd and, imho, is too
close to the truth to totally deny that's what's been happening.

Allowing the greatest country & economy in the world to become an oil
junkie is pathetic leadership.

Book 'em for incompetence, Dano

The combination of "markets" and geo extraction encourages all those
in the bidness, especially the _owners_, to be screwups.

The attitudes they are acquiring now doom their civilization.

Bret Cahill

"The search for gold has impoverished more European countries . . ."

-- DeTocqueville

On Apr 25, 1:49 pm, Bret Cahill aol.com> wrote:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080512/hertsgaard

partial solutions, options, interim austerity measures

NUKE THE TARSANDS, if doing that wouldn't trash planet earth
unacceptably

encouage incentivized carpooling, if it could be insured and designed
crime hardened maximally

don't even think about giving more tax write offs for SUVs, except if
owner crushes the @#$%%^&

On Apr 25, 8:49 pm, Robert Cohen msn.com> wrote:

There are just too many researchers at prestigious universities coming
up with algae diesel and algae ethanol to believe all of them are
frauds or crackpots.

The revenue from one acre of desert will be about 30,000 gallons or
$100,000 dollars, several times better than berries, which need
water. The efficiency is actually higher than solar thermal, let
alone PV.

We can get sustainable.

The real problem will be getting there from here. The next 10 - 15
years will be rough.

Really rough.

What we need right now are _interim_ solutions.

Bret Cahill