Finally! A politician who is......

[playswithfowl]

SundownWaterfowl...you are surely living on another planet and, well, to keep myself from getting banned I'm going to leave your "out of this world" comments alone.

I agree, I would rather stay on BYC than rant about any the "opinions" you have....​

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

What was the original topic?

 

[warcard]

I know SunDownWaterfowl didn't really mean it the way it sounds, its just for all the people who say we are only in it for the oil, well if that was true we would have enacted the nuclear scenario. If people really want to crawl in a hole and pull the covers over their head by withdrawing from the world, we WILL have to drill for our own oil.

Oh yeah if you don't think Bush knows about alternate energy look up how he powers his ranch (geo-thermal), and collects water. Crawford is almost self sufficient. Meanwhile Mr. Global Warming's (Al BORE) home outside Nashville, TN uses 20 times the power in one month than a normal family uses in a year.

Bush wasn't great, but all the presidential candidates this year aren't going to be any better. McCain is the best of the worst, and hopefully it sounds like he is going to make Romney his VP so we might get a break there.

Finally, nuclear power has waste, but so does what we use now. Solar, wind, etc. also have 'waste' involved in the manufacture of the components. We are able to reuse and reduce nuclear waste to a very small amount these days and we have a very safe place to put it (Yuma Mtn.) if Pinky Reed would just shut-up. This place can hold generations of the amount of waste we will generate, and if we could start working with nuclear power again we'll be able to research even more ways to cut waste.

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

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Did he say where that money would be comming from? I dont think that that is a good idea. Surely it would mean higher taxes. Right?

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

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Great job!

I dont like Al Gore. he is the dumbest person I have ever seen. He preaches about global warming, but does nothing about his house, and all the power he uses. He is a hyprocrite.

 

[Crunchie]

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I'm going out to tend to my chickens!!

The rest of y'all have fun.

 

[warcard]

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Been in the military. We lost more men than that in one battle during WW1 or 2, and those guys were drafted. I'm not saying I want any of my comrades to die, but we volunteered for the job. Most military members in Iraq and Afganistan say it is worth it, and they don't want to leave until the job is done, ie a stable Iraqi government able to support itself and defend it's citizens.

People who don't understand what they are signing shouldn't be signing a mortgage for a hundred plus thousand dollar house. Its the same way with lots of things these days, when I bought our 4-wheeler it was advertised at $59 per month for 2 years at 7.9%interest. The thing cost $7,000! Does someone really believe that those payments will pay off the cost! Well with today's education maybe they do

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

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Been in the military. We lost more men than that in one battle during WW1 or 2, and those guys were drafted. I'm not saying I want any of my comrades to die, but we volunteered for the job. Most military members in Iraq and Afganistan say it is worth it, and they don't want to leave until the job is done, ie a stable Iraqi government able to support itself and defend it's citizens.

People who don't understand what they are signing shouldn't be signing a mortgage for a hundred plus thousand dollar house. Its the same way with lots of things these days, when I bought our 4-wheeler it was advertised at $59 per month for 2 years at 7.9%interest. The thing cost $7,000! Does someone really believe that those payments will pay off the cost! Well with today's education maybe they do

That is true!

If they dont understand what they are signing, then they shouldnt sign it.

 

[farm_mom]

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As someone who's lost a loved one in Iraq, I've been following this thread, and holding my tongue. But this comment bothers me a bit. (I won't even go there with the "nuke em all" mentality.) I don't really see how this war can be compared to WWI or WWII. I can see some parallels to Vietnam, sure.

Perhaps what bothers most of us about this war is the motives behind it. I'm not claiming to have the answers here. Before my family member was killed, before he was even sent to Iraq the first time I was against this war. Now that he's been killed I feel muddled. What did he die for if we all just pack up and leave? Will it make a difference anyway if we stay? And how many more families have to go through what mine has before it all ends?

All I can say is in my correspondence and understanding it is not fair to say most military want to stay in this war. In fact, it is quite the contrary.

 

[mom'sfolly]

Gee, bailing out lenders and people who took out bad loans because they couldn't understand that you can't pay more than you earn. Lets see, budget surplus in 1999, budget deficeit in 2008, debt reduction in 2000 (approximately $.2 trillion or $200 billion, total debt of $3.2 trillion) to a debt of $9.5 trillion in 2008 or $31,000/every man, woman and child in the US. Can't really see how different this is. You can't spend more than you earn and not expect long term financial problems.

Now, back on topic.

We need a comprehensive energy policy that includes research and investment in alternative energy production that is for both large and small scale production, incentives for corporate conservatism, exploitation of known energy sources that won't pollute the place we live, and infrastructure investment that is not just for roads but for bikes, rail, bus, and even pedestrian friendly development. Or roads are failling, our bridges are failing, levees....its all aging. Part of the fix should be looking at efficiency.

Geothermal, solar, waste heat recovery, hydro, methane production from waste, wind power, clean coal......lots of stuff out there. The future of energy cannot be only petroleum dependent.