Gas Prices again- then back to pianos.

[David Ilvedson, RPT]

Robert,

I just remembered where you live and it makes much more sense...;-]

David I.


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Goodale <rrg@nevada.edu>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Thursday, December 07, 2000 11:32 AM
Subject: Gas Prices again- then back to pianos.


>Delwin D Fandrich wrote:
>
>> You are correct, there is still some on-going debate over the issue.
>> Although it is becoming increasingly one-sided.
>
>Yes...  propaganda has a way of doing that.
>
>
>> This year GM, Ford, Daimler-Chrysler and Texaco, among others,
>> have all withdrawn their support, citing the increasingly overwhelming
>> evidence supporting the facts of global warming.
>
>Special interest groups tend to make companies do things like that.  It is
>often easier to do and say what is politically correct then to spend
millions
>arguing over junk science.
>
>
>> The U.S. National Academy of Science agrees.
>
>Ah yes, what a suprise.
>
>
>> The U.S. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has revised its 1995
>> report to acknowledge it was wrong.  Global warming is actually taking
place
>> at a far faster rate than they could have imagined in 1995.
>
>A government agency?  What a shocker.
>
>
>> The head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has
declared
>> that the climate situation is now 'critical,' and has urged the world
>> governments to immediately take steps to reduce their use of carbon
fuels.
>
>Another government agency gone bad.  NOAA was created to govern maritime
>transportation, develop and maintain navigational systems, and provide
accurate
>cartography for maps and charts.  Later they took on some responsibilities
>shared with the FAA and the NTSB.  Becoming environmental activists was
never
>part of the package.  Looks like some stupid group has forced them into
another
>agenda.  Seems this is what happened to OSHA too.
>
>
>> The list goes on...
>
>Unfortunately.
>
>Lest we be reminded that the climate of the planet has never been stable in
>it's entire 8.5 billion year history.  There have been numerous ice ages,
>droughts, tropical climates have become deserts, deserts have become
oceans,
>etc, etc.  Earth's history has experienced massive volcanic activity that
has
>spewed hundreds of times more toxic gasses into the air then all of man's
>activities combined.  This is one of those facts that so-called "green
groups"
>fail to mention.  A variance of 2 degrees in fifty years and claiming that
the
>world will come to an end is pure scare tactic politically motivated junk
>science.  Nature has a way of fixing things on it's own.  I would imagine
that
>someday within the next hundred years or less alternative energy will make
>fossil fuels obsolete and oil drilling equipment will become museum
displays.
>The skies will clear and nature will take care of the rest.  Then people
will
>wonder why we spent so many billions of dollars scaring everyone into
thinking
>that we are headed into Armageddon.  We all need to be responsible with the
>fuels we use and how we use them.  There is no excuse for ignoring
unnecessary
>pollution.  However, being dependent on unstable foreign resources instead
of
>taping into our own makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.  Do you really
think
>that Arabs give a damn if one of their tankers spills a half million
gallons of
>oil into the gulf?  Just because the pollution is happening a world away
>doesn't mean it isn't happening.  We have the means of extracting oil in
far
>more environmentally responsible ways than any other nation on the planet,
yet
>we would rather let some irresponsible government do the dirty work for us
and
>then be held hostage at the pump.  What's wrong with this picture?
>
>Rob Goodale, RPT
>Las Vegas, NV
>
>
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