On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:35:49 -0700, jason@nospam.com (Jason) wrote:

>In article <6e44b58d2c244460da06f2402dd9e1da@dizum.com>, 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).
>
>The problem is that no town or city wants any type of power plant to be
>built in their back yard. I live in a county that has a Nuclear Power
>Plant. The liberals in this state have been trying to close down that
>Nuclear Power Plant for the past 20 years. There has not been a new
>Nuclear Power Plant built in the past 20 years. The reason is because
>no person in America wants a Nuclear Power plant or a Coal to Oil
>Conversion Plant to be built in their back yard. There is even a name
>for it---NIMBY--.
>Jason
Forget coat to oil - when was the last OIL REFINERY built in the
USA????
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