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Old 07-16-2012, 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by spdrun View Post
What we've done over the past 60 years is sail around with an M-16 and shoot many other people who were attempting to steer *their* boats.

"Steering our own boat" would have resulted in a crash program to become independent of oil within 5 years ... 25 years ago. We have the technology. It's an engineering problem at this point.
You do forget that their steerage does have an effect on us. That is the issue. Sure you say it is your boat but if that boat does affect mine, it becomes my issue also.

It is a cost problem. Anything can be done if you don't have to pay for it.
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