GP: Re: [GBlist] USA imports 55% of its oil was Should we be subsidizing nuclear and fossil fuels?

[Ron Byrd <byrdelc@directcon.net>]

I think Paul has missed my point. I am in favor of a cleaner environment
and peace on Earth. I happen to believe that most things are accomplished
though some kind of economic means.

I believe that our dependence on foreign oil is actually holding us bake
from making progress in other renewable energy sectors. The sooner we make
the change from a fossil fuel society to one that relies more on renewable
resources the sooner we can stop protecting our future interest in the
Middle East.

Oil is only a start. We need to focus on all types of energy consumption
including our own needs for our homes and businesses. The more energy
efficient we become the more green our lifestyles will be. Technology
though economics is the best engine for change. Make a way for someone to
earn money and it will happen.

By the way I read a news report today about the Presidents spending budget
and it seems he is suggesting we reduce spending on fossil fuels while
increasing spending on renewables. He is also recommending tax incentives
for renewable technologies. A statement like that coming from a real "oil
man" makes me wonder what our energy situation is really like. Can anyone
remember what the energy situation was like when Jimmy Carter was in
office?

Speireag Alden wrote:

> Sgrìobh Paul:
>
> >So you will take what you want because might makes right, and
> >anybody who gets in the way will get butchered by your military. And
> >that little jewel, Mr. Oil Man, puts you squarely in the category of
> >robber baron, terrorist, "more blood for oil".
> >You are a miserable excuse for a human being.
> >
> >--paul, webmaster http://globalcircle.net
> >peace and liberty, sustainability and justice
>
> Hello, Paul.
>
>      Several points occur to me.
>
>      You advocate peace in your .sig, but this is not a peaceful
> response.  Your intentions may be otherwise, but it smacks of
> hypocrisy.
>
>      In any polite forum (like this one), this sort of personal attack
> is specifically prohibited.
>
>      Regardless of whether it's prohibited, such a personal attack
> ends up accomplishing nothing good.
>
>      You are therefore discrediting yourself on a forum where,
> presumably, you're hoping to advocate for the issues which are
> important to you.  I, for one, now will not waste my time bothering
> to look at the website in your sig.
>
>      The person you have chosen to attack as an "oil man" makes his
> living selling solar systems and advocating for solar energy.
>
>      The fact that you didn't figure that out, despite the fact that
> it's at the end of all of his posts, makes you look like an idiot or
> a fool, even if you are neither.
>
>      If you intend to continue to advocate for environmentalist
> issues, kindly get a grip on your behavior so that you don't
> discredit other environmentalists.
>
>      Thank you.
>
> -Speireag.
> --
> I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree
> which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the
> valley of the Euphrates.  -- Theodore Roosevelt
>
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