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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> At this point government is the only thing that can effectively drag
> us back to to less dependency on oil. I don't think it will so get
> used to being cold and paying $10/gallon for gas.
> 

The government can't make petroleum appear in the ground where there is none. 
 The only way it has of keeping you from $10 a gallon gas is to arrange so 
that you don't have to buy gas .... public transportation.  All the alternate 
fuels and alternate energy will fall very short of making up the diffefence 
when 
oil goes into decline in earnest.  Yet, what is the government doing?   
Pushing ethanol.  Alas, energy-wise it takes about a gallon of ethanol to 
make a 
gallon of ethanol.  Biodiesel is a little better, but only a little.  

We've just got to stop moving around so much and heating such big houses.

And wear sweaters.


James   </HTML>