Posted on 06/02/2008 1:00:39 AM PDT by Roy Tucker
No offence, but you upset me. I’m Liechtensteinian.
LOL. Sorry, but you deserve to die. Liechtensteiniacs are essentially criminals. They live in an evil monarchy that steals money from other countries. The Price calls himself "von und zu" which is so absurd that not only does he deserve to be bombed, he deserves to be tortured to death. I am not sure exactly what method of torture, but I would like it to have something to do with Michael Moore. Oh the horror.
Price = Prince
Where in Germany are you?
Munich
I froze my ass off at the Munchen Hofbahnhof on my way to Karlsrue from Garmisch. No global warming there. Burrr.
I agree that the high price of fossil fuels is the best and most efficient spur to the introduction of alternative fuels. The concern with the sort of over-regulation called for by Kyoto is that it misallocates resources to lousy or dead-end technologies.
Since China has now surpassed the US as the largest producer of greenhouse gases (and on a GDP per capita basis is considerably less efficient) the argument that the developed world caused the build up can no longer be valid.
The whole notion of such schemes rests on the fantastic foundation that there is yet to be found an element that burns as readily and is as abundant as carbon itself; all else is a game of hide-and-seek.
“The United States existed for nearly 200 years without cars.”
And to revert to that state will bring us right back where we were then - up to our ears in horseshit.
There are a lot of people (and many at FR) that think the way of life in the US for its first 200 years was perhaps a little more to their liking than the last 60 or so.
Thirst for oil has meant foreign entanglements.
Up to and especially during Tesla’s time the vibrancy of discovery is charming to me; when Tesla envisioned powering the world from the falls at Niagara he seriously underestimated the power soon to be consumed in his burgeoning world.
When we went from cataracts to geysers the infrastructure expanded accordingly and that is when the inter-dependency began.
Well written. Deep thought. Worth repeating. Perhaps a tag line?
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