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re: Oil dependency

phil — 12/6/2004 6:55:49 PM (archived)

I agree that it is imperative we reduce our oil dependency. Too bad this govt and all its predicessors won't take this as a national goal with a diverse portfolio of potential solutions ranging from nuclear to renewable and a few wildcard exotic trials. Bush's oil industry buddies make this a special non-starter for the next 4 years.

But low oil prices causing communism to fail is a ludicrous claim unless you mean to say that communism was SO fragile that any disruption whatsoever could cause it to implode. I'd even disagree there. It's clear to rational thinking folk that communism died because it could not compete economically and technically with capitalism, even when burdened by socialistic implementations. The Soviets had excellent science but their state system only produced world class results in policy guided areas. Free economies, especially those with access to venture capital, innovate and serendipitously birth new paradigm shifting technologies. Reagan's ridiculed Star Wars program (the "unbiased" liberal press' derisive term) forced defense spending unsustainable by the Sovs. End of that Evil Empire. On to the robber barron state of today.

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Oil dependency - Raoul - 12/6/2004 4:41:00 PM
- How did low oil price collapse communism? - ebnelson - 12/7/2004 4:25:49 AM
  - re: How did low oil price collapse communism? - Raoul - 12/7/2004 6:40:08 AM
    - That is an interesting, but vague, reference. - ebnelson - 12/7/2004 11:19:22 PM
- re: Oil dependency - Buck Galaxy - 12/7/2004 1:08:20 AM
  - But God forbid we drill for oil anywhere new in the U.S. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 12/7/2004 3:55:48 AM
- re: Oil dependency - phil - 12/6/2004 6:55:49 PM
- Oil based economy controlled by an unknown policy group. - Eric - 12/6/2004 6:02:51 PM
  - No one has yet to find out the designers of the flying Black Triangles - Lindy - 12/7/2004 3:21:09 AM
    - Perhaps because there are none to design. (n/t) - ebnelson - 12/7/2004 10:08:34 PM
    - Do you have NO mental filters? - R.L. - 12/7/2004 2:34:15 PM
      - Forget that site........ - Lindy - 12/7/2004 7:25:12 PM
    - Are we free of anomalist pap or not? (n/t) - ebnelson - 12/7/2004 4:22:09 AM
    - Silent at times......... - Lindy - 12/7/2004 3:24:16 AM
      - Recording of Black Triangle - Font Laborer - 12/7/2004 4:40:13 PM
      - I must have heard that sound effect in thirty cheesy SF movies. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 12/7/2004 4:33:54 AM
  - Is this Board still Anomaly Free, as advertised? If so, Mr. moderator please delete this thread. Eric is posting anomaly bs. (n/t) - ebnelson - 12/6/2004 8:54:56 PM
  - P.S. - Tom Brosz - 12/6/2004 6:38:05 PM
    - very close, but not quite................ - Publius - 12/6/2004 8:42:51 PM
    - patriotic condescension - Eric - 12/6/2004 6:51:18 PM
      - Anomalistic Crap Alert re: Eric's posts. - ebnelson - 12/6/2004 9:52:27 PM
      - A new take on the old routine there. - Tony - 12/6/2004 6:54:32 PM
        
        Another patriotic condescension - Eric - 12/6/2004 7:17:12 PM
        
        Were there WMDs in Iraq? Was Saddam illegally pursuing WMD programs? - ebnelson - 12/7/2004 4:24:12 AM
        
        Not my fault you can't read, bub. - Tony - 12/6/2004 8:40:25 PM
        
        re: Not my fault you can't read, bub. - Davin L. - 12/6/2004 11:50:06 PM
        
        would thaaat beee a.... - r.l. - 12/7/2004 4:53:16 AM
        
        Is that like an Aussie budgie? (n/t) - alcaray - 12/7/2004 12:07:21 AM
        
        re: A new take on the old routine there. - p - 12/6/2004 6:56:48 PM
        
        I cannot tell a lie. - Tony - 12/6/2004 7:05:49 PM
        
        re: I cannot tell a lie. - p - 12/7/2004 2:47:22 AM
        
        Hey, there, English Man - Davin L. - 12/6/2004 7:15:09 PM
  - Yeah. Secret technology from flying saucers. Right. - Tom Brosz - 12/6/2004 6:35:39 PM

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