Gilead:
"Lets flush lots of money down the toliet today and make us economically worse off right now just in case at some future date something bad happens that we cannot insulate ourselves from anyway."
What "future date" are you talking about???
1972,73?, 1976?, 1983?, 1989?, 1991,92,93?, 1994?, 1997?, 2001,02,03,04,05,06,07?
The whole dependence on foreign oil is something that has cost this country (in one way or another) $TRILLIONS. We could have invented and relied on every conceivable form of alternative energy imaginable in that amount of time.
The problem is the same as it always is with these bozos - tomorrow aint today.
Len
Warren Buffet: 5 minutes and 17 seconds of pure, unadulterated, bulletproof, flawless logic.
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