Ahem You all are not not considering the amount of time it takes to
figure out how Haliburton can make a profit off Katrina's aftermast. Once
the Shrub and his cabinet organize for Haliburton's involvment, things wiill
run as smoothly in the "Big Easy" as they do in Iraq!

Bobby
----- Original Message -----
From: "ken barber" <[log in to unmask]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.c-palsy
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Here's an article on the preparedness of FEMA.


> and just why are we blocking nuclear? oil is there and
> yes, it will eventually run out, but not soon. we'd
> better develope alturnatives, but, we can't shut down
> the world in the meantime.
>
> may i ask a question. oil is naturally there. it is
> part of nature. guys, what would you suggest we do
> with it if we did not use it as we now do? i'll say
> this: we'd have finished off the whales had someone
> not learned to use oil.
>
> --- Trisha Cummings <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Oil is a finite item - eventually we will run out -
>> we need to come with alternatives for it. But its
>> highly doubtful the folks who get filthy rich off
>> oil want that. One way or the other - the day the
>> oil runs out will come. Then what? Mass anarchy? I
>> remember the last oil crisis - what 30 years ago -
>> and what has changed - nada. Because oil makes
>> someone rich and rich people run the government and
>> their interests are taken care of. Longterm
>> planning...........?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
>> ken barber
>> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 10:41 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Fw: Here's an article on the
>> preparedness of FEMA.
>>
>>
>> dear mag, they can put an oil well in now that you
>> could not find if you did not know where it was.
>> hydrogen cars are a good 20 years to feasably being
>> sold to the public. electric cars are good for short
>> range local driving if you hold down the mileage.
>> the
>> hybrids on the market now is the best bet if they
>> can
>> get them down a little so that most average people
>> can
>> aford them.
>> the idea that business men ant to poison the air and
>> water that they and their kids have to breath and
>> drink just like everybody else is irrational.
>>   i am saying taxes are a big part of the price of
>> gas. if the government can do anything quickly about
>> the high prices, that is it. if you don't want
>> prices
>> to come down, then leave it alone. you know if gas
>> keeps going up, your food is going to go up, your
>> mass
>> transit will go up, you name your consumer products
>> and the cost og fuel will affect it. if you do not
>> want the only quick fix the government can effect,
>> then don't critisize any of them from bush down.
>>   long term we are going to have to quit listening
>> to
>> irrational groups and build refineries, drill for
>> oil,
>> build nuclear power plants and other things.
>>   by the way if you want to put the drilling in
>> anwar
>> in prospective the 2000 acres where drilling is
>> proposed compared to all of anwar would be like a
>> postage stamp on your average living room floor.
>> and
>> it is not pristime wilderness, it is a danm sheet of
>> ice, contrary to what the media portrays.
>>   like i said this fuel crises now is showing the
>> pure
>> folly of the politics of the last 20 years or so.
>> and
>> like i said some of us saw it comming.
>>
>>
>> --- Magenta Raine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> > it is my understanding that companies have been
>> > buying up patents for
>> > alternative energy vehicles but have not yet put
>> > them on market because
>> > they want to squeeze every drop of oil money they
>> > can. So I am not sure if
>> > drilling for our own oil and messing up the
>> > environment is the thing to do.
>> > They are waiting too damn long to put these alt.
>> > vehicles on market.
>> >
>> > My question is, why are you saying  roll back the
>> > gas tax??
>> >
>> > mag
>> >
>> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> > [log in to unmask]
>> > If you need a business card designed, please email
>> > me.
>> >
>> >
>> > > [Original Message]
>> > > From: ken barber <[log in to unmask]>
>> > > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > > Date: 9/5/2005 2:51:32 PM
>> > > Subject: Re: Fw: Here's an article on the
>> > preparedness of FEMA.
>> > >
>> > > our governor removed state tax from gas here in
>> > > georgia, write your governor and ask that nc do
>> > the
>> > > same. by the way i was in north carolina this
>> > morning
>> > > and could have filled up at 3.19.
>> > > write your congressman and senators and remove
>> the
>> > > federal tax on gas.
>> > >
>> > > but, of course there is a gas shortage. there
>> was
>> > a
>> > > short supply before the storm. roughly 25 per
>> cent
>> > of
>> > > the countries energy comes from the gulf coast.
>> > > refineries are under water. we have not built a
>> > new
>> > > refinery since 1975. most of the refineries were
>> > > running at near capicity so those left can't
>> take
>> > up
>> > > the slack. this just points up the folly of not
>> > > drilling for our own oil and building our
>> > capacity.
>> > > the very folly of the politics that has blocked
>> > this
>> > > for years. some of us saw it comming.
>> > >
>> > > --- Kathy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > We're feeling the effects here in NC too,
>> Bobby
>> > -
>> > > > there is a gas shortage
>> > > > here. too, and I even saw that a gas station
>> > down
>> > > > East was charging $4.65 a
>> > > > gallon!
>> > > >
>> > > > Kat
>> > > >
>> > > > On Saturday 03 September 2005 3:53 pm, you
>> > wrote:
>> > > > > What you are not seeing on national TV are
>> the
>> > > > collateral problems. For
>> > > > > instance, the entire city of Memphis is out
>> of
>> > > > gasoline! I just talked to a
>> > > > > lady from Baton Rogue and they have a curfew
>> > > > because of rape and gunfire.
>> > > > > It doesn't take Einstein to realize to
>> ripple
>> > > > effect re: pipelines, etc
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
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