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Cal Thomas promotes bike commuting
John Thompson wrote:
On 2008-05-14, wrote: On May 14, 9:24 am, Frank Krygowski wrote: b) The US should drill for oil offshore, in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, etc. What are these people smoking? Drilling in previously off-limits areas will have no significant positive effect on America's energy dependence or the price of oil or the price of gasoline. But that's not the reason why they want to drill in the ANWR. There's good money to be made pumping that oil and they want to get it before somebody else does. Who else is going to get the oil on U.S. territory? Do remember that the people telling us that drilling in the ANWR will help solve our energy problems are the same people who told us that we invaded Iraq because of the "virtual certainty" that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, and for the same reason. And they knew (and know) that neither of those was true. They have their reasons for doing what they're doing though. |
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Bill Sornson wrote:
Prove that and impeach Bush. Oh, wait, you can't. (But repeat something often enough and eventually people will believe it.) Wait, so you believe there _were_ WMDs, even though every investigator said there were none, and the "proof" that they existed was fabricated. So the newspapers were wrong--there still is someone that believes the WMD story! They have their reasons for doing what they're doing though. Oooh, mysterious... Not mysterious at all. The reasons Bush & company wanted to invade Iraq had been known for years. 9-11 gave them a chance to mislead a lot of non-critical thinkers and uninformed citizens (i.e. you), into believing their propaganda. The reason there is no exit strategy from Iraq is because there is no plan to ever leave. Iraq was intended to be a middle-eastern base for the U.S. military. You can actually read the blueprint for the real plan on-line at "http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf" Similarly, their reasons for wanting to drill in ANWR are also well known. It's not about the oil, everyone agrees that the amount of oil the the ANWR is minimal, less than one year's supply at current usage levels. They know that if they can succeed in getting big oil into the ANWR, they can succeed in allowing the oil companies invade other wild places, they can allow the timber companies to clear cut in wilderness areas, etc. You need to look at the big picture, and not just get your news from Rush and Sean. |
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Cal Thomas promotes bike commuting
On May 14, 8:06 pm, SMS wrote:
John Thompson wrote: On 2008-05-14, wrote: On May 14, 9:24 am, Frank Krygowski wrote: b) The US should drill for oil offshore, in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, etc. What are these people smoking? Drilling in previously off-limits areas will have no significant positive effect on America's energy dependence or the price of oil or the price of gasoline. But that's not the reason why they want to drill in the ANWR. There's good money to be made pumping that oil and they want to get it before somebody else does. Who else is going to get the oil on U.S. territory? A host of int'l oil companies will 'get' the oil on US territory, and Americans will have the privilege of paying one hundred-whatever dollars per barrell for it just like they would for any other oil. And it won't have any signficant effect on our overall energy dilemma. Idiots. |
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Cal Thomas promotes bike commuting
Frank Krygowski wrote:
Cal Thomas is a syndicated op-ed columnist, about as conservative as the Pope is Catholic. Actually Cal Thomas is very inconsistent in his viewpoints which is one illustration of why the terms "liberal" and "conservative" have lost so much meaning. FWIW, almost none of the Republican politicians on the scene nationally can make a valid claim to being conservatives either, Ron Paul being a notable exception. Today's column makes the following points: a) The oil companies are good guys. They should continue to get $17 billion in tax breaks from our government. You might want to research the issue....what the advocates of windfall profits taxation want to do is tax the profits at a higher rate so that making a profit becomes pointless. b) The US should drill for oil offshore, in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, etc. The U.S. does not drill anywhere. Companies drill. The U.S. federal government simply sells leases to various natural resources. The U.S. government has made some very bad decisions in the past on such leases, mostly in the area of timber and mineral leases. If the objection to the oil companies profits is because the lease price is too low, that would make sense, but it seems to me that some people just don't want oil products to be utilized at all. c) "A slow transition [to non-oil energy sources] will also give us time to consider more fuel-efficient cars and greater use of public transportation, even bicycles for short trips. Bikes would help more of us lose weight and get in shape. A friend bikes to work every day, saving gas, car payments, insurance and repair costs." The first two points illustrate that he's not turned into a left- leaning softie overnight. The third point illustrates that it's not only left-leaning softies that see value in biking. That's a real mistake many people make in assigning political philosophy to issues which are not really political in nature. Politics is force in a word. Use of bicycles as transportation or for simple pleasure/exercise represents a potential decision for individuals to freely make. The only way to make cycling a political issue is to mandate bicycle use...then of course, we can no longer even nominally claim to live in a free country. - Frank Krygowski -- They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. -- Ernest Hemingway |
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