Gas Prices again- then back to pianos.

[Greg Newell]

No! Although I have on occasion. I don't consider myself a follower of anyone
but rather , hopefully, just one who uses common sense.

Greg Newell




"David Ilvedson, RPT" wrote:

> Just curious...do you guys listen to Rush everyday?  Enquiring minds want to
> know....
>
> David I.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Newell <gnewell@ameritech.net>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: Thursday, December 07, 2000 3:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Gas Prices again- then back to pianos.
>
> >Rob,
> >     Thanks for the voice of reason. I've heard this before. One thing that
> always
> >got to me was the scare tactics the environmentalists use. It just sounds
> way too
> >much like the Democratic party to me.
> >No offense to anyone intended ;>)  !
> >Greg Newell
> >
> >
> >
> >Robert Goodale wrote:
> >
> >> 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 have all withdrawn their support, citing the increasingly overwhelming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
> >
> >