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[Melody Oliphant <melody AT feedngrow.com>]

Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
>   
> > 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>
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>   

Isn't it true that there are many oil reserves in the US that are 
untapped due to some form of governmental high-handedness?  Typically 
that is the "help" I expect from government.

Best wishes,
Melody