Daily Kos

View Story | 158 comments

  •  Just snarking (4.00 / 11)

    it would be a waste of time.  Although they are the God people so they should get on the stick.

    I think we lost out chance at cheap energy when we stopped the ongoing efforts in the 80's.  To get cheap energy you need cheap investment to build the alternates which means you need cheap energy.  We had a couple of decades of cheap oil and we pissed it away, waiting for the magic of the market.

    by TJ on Sat Oct 08, 2005 at 12:54:53 PM PDT

    [ Parent ]

    •  Dead on! (4.00 / 5)

      I think we lost out chance at cheap energy when we stopped the ongoing efforts in the 80's.

      Our worst mistake of the last half-century, IMO.  Thank you very much, Mr. Reagan.

      Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization. -- George Bernard Shaw

      by dsteffen on Sat Oct 08, 2005 at 02:59:37 PM PDT

      [ Parent ]

      •  Reagan Was the Worst Mistake (4.00 / 8)

        in the history of free societies. Worst==most damaging.

        We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy.... --ML King "Beyond Vietnam"

        by Gooserock on Sat Oct 08, 2005 at 04:01:42 PM PDT

        [ Parent ]

        •  Lost opportunities (none / 0)

          A perverse humanity, sub-species hominus americanus, probably would have found a way to blow this necessary transition anyway, but his era of reaction and neglect sealed the fate of -- ?? -- billions...

          If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State...

          by HenryDavid on Sun Oct 09, 2005 at 09:56:25 AM PDT

          [ Parent ]

View Story | 158 comments