Jens <mugarbeFJERN@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
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> ..or we could choose some more efficient cars with fewer
> cylinders and HP's !
Screw that. I didn't study hard, work hard, and claw my way up
the economic food chain in order to be satisfied with a glorified
golf cart. I'll give up my big S-class Mercedes when they pry my
cold, dead hands off the steering wheel.
(I saw my first Smart the other day. They've *got* to be kidding.
No significant numbers of Americans are going to drive toys like
that. A few pinko professors in university towns, and other mis-
cellaneous "gray ponytails," maybe, but that'll about be all.)
Enough of this bullshit. I say we take the goddam oil fields.
Not to plunder, as Japan would've done in the Dutch East Indies
at the start of WWII, but to administer as fair and benevolent
custodians with assured supplies to all. (Unless someone pisses
us off, of course. It'd be a hoot and a half for *America* to be
able to use oil as a weapon for once. The threat of petroleum
embargoes, *and* nukes! Talk about having the best of all possible
worlds...)
If production can't keep up with demand, then we'll drill more
wells and build more refineries, and start a quasi-Manhattan
Project of oil field exploration. Oh, and stiff penalties for
artificial shortages. Enough of this "two-thirds of refineries
'coincidentally' going down for maintenance at the same time" crap.
By the way, Jens, see if cou can coax your mommy out from underneath
that Republican and get her to show you how to use a text editor.
The idea isn't to include the entire goddam thread intact in each
and every post. Thanks ever so much.)
Geoff
--
"Have you ever noticed that whenever you sneeze on your dashboard
or computer monitor, it smells like pussy?" -- bandy
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