Re: GAS-L: Conquest of the Land Through Seven Thousand Years

[Keith Addison <keith@journeytoforever.org>]

Peter Singfield <snkm@btl.net> wrote:

>*** Bush tries to ease power woes
>
>WASHINGTON (AP) - Hoping to ease California's electricity crisis,
>President Bush is prepared to let the state roll back its air
>pollution requirements on power plants, administration officials
>said Thursday. Senior advisers also are exploring ways Mexico might
>increase electricity shipments into the state, although that might
>not be possible immediately. California pollution control officials
>said environmental restrictions have not interfered in power plants
>operating at maximum capacity. They said the state already has made
>some adjustments in air rules - when needed - to keep power flowing
>and does not need a waiver. White House press secretary Ari
>Fleischer said the administration was "reviewing a number of
>options" that might be helpful to California. The state has been
>reeling under high electricity prices, intermittent blackouts and
>the threat of utility bankruptcies. He declined to elaborate.

Peter, you're doing what I said needed changing the most - confusing 
human nature with corporate nature.

<snip>

>The real solution is not trying to meet energy consumption needs with
>alternative power production systems -- at this late date -- but learning
>how to do without!

No need to do without, alternatives will do the job. Certainly a need 
to cut right down on all the profligacy.

<snip>

>I expect the intelligia to do

I'm more interested in what people do.

>what they always do during these style
>events, theorize on how it can't be happening "here" (the line from that
>very old Mother's of Invention "chant" -- "It Can't Happen Here!!") and in
>the end -- find some one outside of their group to lay the blame on.
>
>While you keep that chant running (It Can't Happen Here) I'll keep
>practicing chipping a stone machete.

Not my line that, Peter, not my chant - there was no hint of that in 
my post, much as I like FZ. You narrow the field to an either-or: 
accept the negative view or blind yourself with denial. It's you 
who's blinding yourself to the option of a solidly based positive 
view. Why do you need a stone machete? Surely there's enough scrap 
steel around to last you a few hundred years?

Best

Keith

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