Re: US Oil put off limits by Dems

On Fri, 30 May 2008 14:06:17 -0500, tscottme wrote:

It's not a coincidence that the people that don't understand markets, and
the people that want to throttle the US economy, and the people that want
the US knocked down a peg or few are also the people that block 85% of
off-chore oil, block oil-shale, block nuclear.

Yer right! 75% of the people who you would label as "greenies" do not
understand flexible markets and 85% don't understand fixed resources and
inelasticity. The thing you overlook is that 80% of the people of all
political stripes don't understand flexible markets and 98% have no clue
at all what inelesticity might mean. And in that group it is probable that
you have no clue at all what the degree of inelasticity and the concept of
economic_rent might mean. Fixed resource economics and monetary economics
does not seem to be your strong suit. You have thus far demonstrated
total misunderstanding of the current situation or a real penchant for
lying. Hard to tell which is the most prevalent.

There is no "solution" to the problem of energy in a crowded world. But
there are proper courses of action and nuclear will probably be one of
them. Oil (like in Montana, N.,S. Dakota and perhaps the Florida Straits)
are stop gap measures. The Republican administration has a tariff on
ethanol from Brazil where they make it with sugar cane and they refuse to
even talk to the Cubans about all their sugar cane. Then there's the fact
that the Cubans are drilling the Florida Straits and sucking up _OUR_ oil.
But we can't "appease" (negotiate with) the Cubans cause they don't use
the right kind of condoms.

All you will hear from the Republicans is ANWR, ANWR, ANWR, ANWR, and
bash them greens.

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of society but the people themselves; and
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exercise their control with a wholesome
discretion, the remedy is not to take it from
them, but to inform their discretion by
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