On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:50:01 +0200 (CEST), Nomen Nescio
<nobody@dizum.com> wrote:

>The People of the United States could build a people-owned coal-to-oil
>conversion plant and extract as much gasoline, from domestic coal, as we
>need, independently of foreign nations. We could just about balance our
>budget just on that one item alone. Just call it Manhattan Project II and
>get started.
>
>Gasoline would be cheap and stay that way, once foreigners, greedy oil
>companies, and profits are taken out of the picture. And even if it wasn't
>cheap, its still cheap enough compared to losing our manhood to the Arab
>sheiks, Venezuelan strongman, Nigerian Mau-mau, and so on down the line.
>
>That is, if we wanted to. Call the troops home today and we will have
>collectively, $1,500,000,000.00 a month to invest in Manhattan Project II
>until its done. Put it to the vote of the people: Do they want
>gasoline-a-plenty at low cost for ourselves and generations to come, or do
>they want to see our beloved country go bankcrupt...to Hell in a handbasket
>with empty tanked SUV cars and Pickups littering the landscape and
>cemetaries full of their dead soldier-children?
>
>I'm waiting, Mr. President. Please answer before the impeachment
>proceedings begin to put you out of the warmongering business (or the
>Generals do a coup d'etat).


Exactly what South Africa did when the UN sanctions were on them in
the sixties/seventies. Made all their own gasoline from coal, and
their gas cost less in 1973 than real gas dis in Zambia, who could buy
wherever they wanted.
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