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Posted by Blackbeard on June 18, 2007 at 9:54:13 pm EDT
In reply to E-85 posted by Blackbeard on June 13, 2007 at 6:21:32 am EDT

Who started this thread, anyway? Whoever started it should be severely punished ;-) It's alot like debating religion.

I'm 55 years old now. For some reason, I want to make a difference in the world. Maybe it's because I feel I don't have decades left. Maybe it's because I gave myself a second chance in life by stopping smoking after 35+ years. Whatever it is, I feel strongly about the issue.

SteveTF, I get the feeling you and I have been through a lot of similar things in life, because you speak what I feel most of the time. I don't think E85 or any fossil fuel, any bio-diesel, any corporate driven fuel company, will be the answer.

I read Mother Earth News ages ago. I study home wind power solutions and solar heating solutions. I have the electrical engineering experience to solve some of this, but not alone. It gets so frustrating. I remember my 1964 Triumph Spitfire getting 30+ mpg, and gas was 29 cents or so. That's a penny a mile!

You can't tell me the gas companies aren't gouging the American people. The raw price of crude oil goes down, but not the price at the pump. We're paying futures prices, and no one really monitors the bidders or the oil company. But this is their right, this is capitalism. It is up to the American people to change that, not the government. I pray that we become 'smart' again.

In my state, I feel I don't have the opportunity to do the right thing all the time. I can't take public transportation because there isn't any (at least not this far from the big city where I work). I can't move in closer because I can't afford the higher prices of premium property. And I mentioned previously, there is no bike lane to take for my 35 mile trip in every day. There is not always an easy solution for everyone.

I will mention again that I feel that we need to take the 'Man on the Moon' approach and do what is considered nearly impossible, because we can lick this thing.

But we need to elect officials that are not pro politians, that really are there as servents to the people, and who feel the pressures that we speak of on this list.

Blackbeard

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