Re: MD US Monkey trap.

From: Mark Steven Heyman (markheyman@infoproconsulting.com)
Date: Tue Jun 01 2004 - 03:24:14 BST

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    Hi MarkM and all,

    Thanks for Freeman essay. I enjoyed it and agree, for the most part.
     I'd like to comment on this paragraph:

    "America has its own hand in a coconut, one that may doom it just as
    surely as the monkey. That coconut is its dependence on cheap oil in
    a world where oil will soon come to an end. The choice we face
    (whether to let the food go or hold onto it) is whether to wean
    ourselves off of oil-to quickly evolve a new economy and a new basis
    for civilization-or to continue to secure stable supplies from the
    rest of the world by force."

    msh says:
    I find a bit obscene the idea that we (the US, 4% of the world's
    population), after consuming 28% of the world's energy resources,
    year after for the last 50 or 60 years, should just go ahead and
    switch over to an alternate energy source and go about our merry way,
    leaving the rest of the world to be thankful that we didn't take it
    all by force. Mr. Freeman could use a dose of the MOQ, IMO.

    Thanks again,
    Mark Steven Heyman (msh) 

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