Re: The Way Our World Ends By Patrick J. Buchanan -- (Liberals prevent

CB wrote:
> 
> "Midwinter" <zvqjvagre.z@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> > Rich Travsky <traRvEsky@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said :
> >
> >> Subject: Re: The Way Our World Ends By Patrick J. Buchanan --
> >> (Liberals prevent  Energy from being harnessed and the world starves)
> >
> > I don't see the current administration - or their flunkies in Downing
> > Street - putting any serious effort into harnessing any non-fossil
energy
> > sources.  And *they're* not usually described as 'liberal'.
> >
> > No-one's making any serious effort to sort out fusion.  No-one's
looking
> > at
> > practical methods of collecting energy from the massive generator in
the
> > sky that's throwing out more power than we could ever *possibly* use. 
No-
> > one's sorting out whether zero-point *is* actually a viable energy
source.
> > There are private initiatives, but barring some remarkable luck, I
can't
> > see them going anywhere.  And even if they do, will they be allowed to
> > interfere in the politicians' lucrative status quo?
> >
> > No, the current western governments dabble - just enough to make it
look
> > as
> > though they're taking things seriously.  But 'liberal' or not, we're
all
> > in
> > thrall to the oil monopoly and, if current government attitudes are
> > anything to go by, that's exactly where we're staying, even as prices
> > rise,
> > economies crumble and people starve.
> 
> The answer lays in expanding what works

No. The answer lies in expanding our options.

RT