On 3/8/2012 2:13 AM, Califbill wrote:
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On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 09:35:24 -0500, BAR wrote:

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http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2012...lectric-lemon/



Told you, and you laughed... snerk Sometimes it pays to
look
at the
world with an open mind...

Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of GE who doesn't pay taxes, will
have to
find
another vehicle to force his people who have company cars to
purchase
and drive.


http://gas2.org/2012/02/20/ge-forcin...o-chevy-volts/

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With all due respect Bert, that sounds like a regurgitation
from a
Rush Limbaugh rant. The republican party needs to put a
muzzle on
that dude before he alienates every swing voter in the country.

I think the jury is still out on electric cars but any
program at
all
which encourages energy independence is a good thing in my
opinion.

Exactly! I don't know why so many far right wingers are against
getting
us off of oil.

The alternatives are not cost effective and you cannot turn the
wind
on
when you need more power nor can you turn the Sun on when it is
night
time.

And there is a finite quantity of oil.

The amount of oil in North America makes Arabia look like an oil can
compared to a tanker truck.

Or so says FOX. So you think we should go to any length to get it, like
the oil sands of Canada? Isn't this a lovely sight:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...nd-landscapes/

Our whole country could look like that!


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So it is OK to drill and pollute the Middle East and South America,
but not
here? Looks about like an open pit mine for most any mineral in the
world.
US included. Most of the Electricity is oil or coal fired plants. So you
get to mine that or drill for that. Electric cars are burning fossil fuel
also, just not at the vehicle.

A well is a pipe in the ground, oil sands are gotten from stripping the
landscape, two entirely different things.

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A coal mine most likely anymore is a strip mine operation. Just like a
gravel quarry or a copper mine.

I visited a granite quarry in North Carolina via a Mayberry police car.
The deputy sheriff boasted that the quarry was reported visible from the
space shuttle. It probably wasn't a pretty site to behold. Were it not
for the mining industry we would still be living in mud huts or log
cabins and driving teams of horses.
What strikes me funny is the *progressives and green weenies* who oppose
progress, but wouldn't give up any of the creature comforts mining has
allowed them.

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