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1 posted on 08/26/2004 12:00:59 PM PDT by restornu

To: rising tide; Grig; Utah Girl; Some hope remaining.

Thanks for the heads up!

2 posted on 08/26/2004 12:03:17 PM PDT by restornu (NYC is the home of Conservative Talk Radio Arbitron rates WABC # ONE in the Nation))

Great read, I think you'll like this one.

3 posted on 08/26/2004 12:05:37 PM PDT by bad company ((<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">Hatriotism))

I love this subject. Thanks so much for posting.

4 posted on 08/26/2004 12:06:02 PM PDT by Boxsford

To: missyme; newgeezer; Little Ray

5 posted on 08/26/2004 12:12:34 PM PDT by restornu (NYC is the home of Conservative Talk Radio Arbitron rates WABC # ONE in the Nation))

I just finished Enders Game, it was one of Cards best books and I highly recommend it.

6 posted on 08/26/2004 12:14:36 PM PDT by SF Republican

Sometimes I think that FreeRepublic should create an outposting project just in case civilation collapses in America. Find the local outpost, bring guns, food, and start farming and boarding up when times get hard. If anyone is ready for the end of it all, its the people who can shoot, trap, fish, traverse land, and defend with no questions asked. The liberals in the cities will see it all go to hell.

7 posted on 08/26/2004 12:17:53 PM PDT by struggle ((The struggle continues))

To: CindyDawg; HairOfTheDog; PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain; malakhi

8 posted on 08/26/2004 12:18:30 PM PDT by restornu (NYC is the home of Conservative Talk Radio Arbitron rates WABC # ONE in the Nation))

I'm not surprised a Canadian wrote this book. Canada is way farther down the dark path than the USA is right now.

14 posted on 08/26/2004 1:00:34 PM PDT by Grig

To: restornu; Lando Lincoln; danneskjold; quidnunc; .cnI redruM; A Longer Name; Aggie Mama; ...

Orson Scott Card - PING [please freepmail me if you want or don't want to be pinged to Orson Scott Card political articles]

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19 posted on 09/01/2004 10:30:47 AM PDT by Tolik

To: restornu; Tolik

Yes, other energy sources will certainly be invented to make up for the missing oil--but there will be a horrible dislocation beforehand with an almost certain collapse of the global economy and the resulting deaths and misery. All of which could be avoided by energy-replacement efforts as intense as, say, the space program of the 1960s.

The author does not really understand that markets also include foresight on the part of their participant. The catastrophic dynamics that he predicts are completely without foundation.

He ends the thought with a typical socialist drivel into which many intellectuals tend naturally: HE knows best what it would cost to find by now the alternative sources of energy. Markets, you see, are too dumb: all the millions of people, including geologists and other scientist, who stood to make billions from the invention --- all they were too dumb to see it. He, the author, is demigod who simply knows.

In the meantime, he misunderstands simple economics: Energy is a private good, not public; government simply cannot do better than the private sector providing it.

In sum, it's a socialist rant.

22 posted on 09/01/2004 10:51:52 AM PDT by TopQuark

25 posted on 09/01/2004 5:11:20 PM PDT by sionnsar (Iran Azadi ||| Resource for Traditional Anglicans: trad-anglican.faithweb.com)

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