[kipita]

But about cleanups... I really like to know your opinion of the cleanup of these old military bases like Warminister, PA and if you think that the only thing that can be done with them is ...say use them to build nuclear power plants.

The major problem with old military bases are the chlorinated hydrocarbons (usually TCE) that were used as degreasers and cleaners. In most cases, the halogenated organics have premeditated into the groundwater and are very toxic to life. As far as the hydrocarbons are concerned, there's more hydrocarbons on the surface of a candy bar then there is at most sites. It's simply food for the bugs. Sorry, I know very little about wood.

[Yosemitest]

But Warminister, PA's problem is with chemical and biological agents researched and produced for world war two.

I don't know how you would clean that up.

[Yosemitest]

And wood, is also great bug food, and rotted wood contributes to great topsoil. If you burn it, it makes great potash, which also makes good topsoil, in moderation.

[Yosemitest]

As far as oil is concerned... Rush has a great ideal from another article titled Bottled Water Industry Gouging.

This is pure Economics 101. It's the government, folks. It's the state and federal bureaucrats and environmentalist wackos who limit the supply of oil and then everything that gets refined from it. If the oil companies -- I mean, just as a matter of strategy, if the oil companies -- limited exploration, if they limited production, if this limited refining, then you could argue that they're trying to control the price, but it's your own government doing that, not the companies! In fact, you know what I would love to see if I were an oilman? If I ran the oil companies, if I was the Grand Poohbah of Big Oil, I'd call all these CEOs in and say,
"You know what? We're going to illustrate what the problem is. We're going to reduce our production. We're going to say we agree with the environmentalists. We're going to cut our production in half. We're not going to refine any more than half of what we're refining now because we are good stewards of the earth and we're going to clean it up -- and when there's no oil, and when the gasoline supply is cut in half and the price has tripled, then we will explain to them and let them see just who it is that places the obstacles in front of them in terms of affordable energy."
I mean, that will never happen. That's one of these exercises I would love to see, but it would never happen, but in fact it is. To a certain extent, it is happening with all these restrictions. That's what's so great about the House Republicans passing the energy bill on Friday. We're going to drill in ANWR if the bill ever gets signed, same thing in the Gulf. We're going to limit these 47 different formulations of gasoline to accommodate the various regulations in the states for pollution purposes. That would speed up the distribution of gasoline nationwide. It'd have a greater effect on price than you could possibly imagine.

But it'll never see the light of day, and we couldn't afford this lesson, even if the oil companies decided to teach us this valuable lesson.