Pity for the Impotent Dick

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

So why don't you do more besides throw insults, Cannon? Back up your insults with a counterargument. I'm all ears. Or eyes, in this case.

In fact, Cannon, here's my first backup, from Rolling Stone. I await your well-informed, logical response.

<<According to Terry Tamminen, former director of the California EPA, the true costs of our oil dependence run as high as $807 billion a year ? or $2,700 for every U.S. citizen. If all the hidden costs that Americans currently pay for oil were reflected in the price at the pump, gasoline would cost more than $13 a gallon. In short, taxpayers and consumers are essentially giving the oil industry a subsidy of $10 for every gallon of gas sold in America. If we simply eliminated those subsidies and created a truly free market, renewable sources of energy would beat oil ? as well as nuclear power and coal, which receive equally grotesque subsidies. It is only through these giant subsidies that gasoline has a prayer of competing with alternative sources such as biofuels and wind, which produce energy far more cleanly and efficiently, at far less cost.>>

B, you might find the article interesting; it's by Robert Kennedy, Jr., arguing that the private market offers our best chance at developing alternative energy sources, not go'vt.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...eal_solution/1