<VV> reserve oil - didnt lisen? - no corvair, in case you couldnt guess

[Bill Elliott]

Very, very little evidence that "global warming" is appreciably due to any made-made action. There likely 
is a component, but it's very very small by most responsible calculations.  In additional, aero evidence 
linking warming to hurricane strength. Actual data shows hurricanes significantly stronger 60 years ago.

Wind and solar are not now (and certainly not in the past) a viable alternative power source.

Nuclear power would have been a very real alternative that would have done everything that you 
suggest, but environmentalists show their true colors (red) by most aggressively fighting the very 
technology that would have solved 99% of their "problems".

The other real problem DOES have to do with the Corvair. Thanks to Nader's success in attacking the 
US automobile industry, the extraconstitutional 1968 Federal Transportation rules outlawed lightweight 
cars overnight.  So all of the small economical cars that the rest of the world enjoy have been illegal here 
since 1968. Even our best "economy" cars carry around nearly 1000lbs of "safety weight", making them 
neither cheap  nor economical nor fun to drive. And who was behind outlawing small light cars? The 
same folks now complaining about how uneconomical cars are.

I think we listened way too much...

Bill

>maybe if we had truly listened,

>     - realized the world uses 320 billion kW hours of energy per day
>          and growing
>    - know that non-renewable resources means
>          NON-RENEWABLE
>    -  and had built huge wind farms,
>           china is building the largest farm, germany is building the 
>largest windmill
>    -  promoted bio-fuels,
>           gas and diesel from organic matter and waste bio products
>    -throw in several dozen solar farms
>    - spent a billion on these technologies instead of 2 billion in iraq

>then we could be getting 30-40 percent of our energy from renewable 
>resources
>    any maybe the gulf waters would not be so HOT, so the hurricane would no 
>have been so destructive, don't forget the worst of the storm missed new 
>orleans!

>    and maybe the caribou could still live a worry free life,
>        btw melting tundra is making a mess out the artic regions, road and 
>buildings             are collapsing

>Thanks!

>Joe,