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Ma'am; what is it with you reactionaries? Are you all like that old man who had seen many changes and was ag'in every one of them? Something has to give. There is going to be progress whether your kind get out of the way or not. It is not only that the world has begun to object to our stealing all the resources; but that, if we had them, it would only make the problems of global warming, and air pollution worse. The problem is the solution, and the solution is the problem. Expensive energy is exactly what we need to drive us toward economy and ecology in our use of energy. The positive side of expensive energy is driving us away from disaster at the same time it is bring us closer to efficiency. Is the problem so Much that Mr. Gore wants to do something in ten years, or that he wants to get started now? Isn't the problem with Mr. Gore that he wants to do something; anything? Sure, it is easy to mock him. Talk is cheap, but if you go to the right you can get cheap talk for nothing, for no change, no improvement, and no future. The only part of the right that works is their mouths. If they can get the government to squeeze the poor to pay for technology to give to the rich for free to profit on tax free, then they are for it. Why don't you advocate for that solution. You know energy solutions are going to take a great public investment, but why should the public benefit? Isn't it enough that the poor are allowed some fraction of nothing? Perhaps you buy gasoline, or fuel oil, or pay more at the store for everything that requires energy. Are you afraid that if you do not toe the company line that you will have to suffer immobility and hunger with all the poor? Ma'am; We are oppressed by your stupidity. We are oppressed by your unwillingness to let government do good, and think ahead. We are oppressed by the whole class of people who refuse the population of this country due justice, and the freedoms we have often fought for. The class you represent cannot be trusted to make a bargain in good faith, or to manage our resources, or our economy in an intelligent and thoughtful manor. Why not do absolutly nothing about energy? Why not wait until we have to choose between flying or eating and see who eats? If being ignorant and acting stupid were virtues; all of your class would have earned a heavenly crown long ago. Instead of rooting for sabotage, why not just get out of the way so life can move forward without you as it already has. Thanks. Sweeney