Text 26923, 63 rader
Skriven 2007-02-04 10:49:07 av Mimi Gallandt (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 26902 av Jeff Binkley (1:226/600)
Ärende: WETBACKS, THE BORDER, SOL
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Jeff Binkley -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 BA>>>>>> Not to mention the fact that American citizens don't want to
 BA>>>>>> pay the price on goods that's required to pay other American
 BA>>>>>> citizens to produce them. Which is why so many manufactured
 BA>>>>>> goods are no longer manufactured in this country.

 JB>>>>> That's Ok, wait till the libs and greenies wake up and see
 JB>>>>> what their mad push to ethanol is going to do to energy and
 JB>>>>> food costs.  This was predicted but nobody is listening.
 JB>>>>> Taken further it will actually cause an increase not a
 JB>>>>> decrease in the use of fossil fuels.  But again heads are in
 JB>>>>> the sand. This is the MTBE fiasco all over again.

 MG>>>> On the subject of cars and alternative fuels; Ford has
 MG>>>> announced they're building a "plug in" hydrogen car. Thought?

 JB>>> Ultimately the way to go for the next 50 or so years but right
 JB>>> now hydrogen is too expensive to manufacture.  Like ethanol, it
 JB>>> takes more energy to create than it provides for transportation.
 JB>>> Until that is resolved, none of these alternative fuel sources
 JB>>> will be a benefit. Mass production of hydrogen or ethanol will
 JB>>> drive up the usage of electricity, which will drive up the
 JB>>> burning of coal.  Remember, the greenies don't want nuclear
 JB>>> reactors, except in France, where 70% of the electricity is
 JB>>> generated using nuclear power.


 JB>>> Jeff

 MG>> As I said to John my interest isn't in cleaner air (although that
 MG>> wouldn't be a bad thing <g>) my interest is in getting the boots of
 MG>> OPEC off our necks.

 JB> Ethanol can help but too much production will have major negative
 JB> results for us and the planet.  Long term hydrogen can be a good
 JB> solution but only once we have a cheap supply of electricity to create
 JB> it.  The most likely long term source of this will be fusion reactors,
 JB> where vast amounts of cheap electricity can be generated, especially at
 JB> night, when normal demand is lower.

 JB> As for OPEC, if we believe the other scare tactics of the greenies, all
 JB> we have to do is wait.  They keep telling us we will run out of oil in
 JB> 30 years.  Once this blessed event occurs for them, OPEC will be
 JB> powerless, because they will have little to offer the planet.

 JB> The better answer is for us to produce more.  There are plenty of
 JB> sources of oil available in the US and offshore.

If we had a better relationship with Mexico it would help as well, they have
oodles of oil.

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Mimi

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