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My only point is... our tax dollars go SOMEWHERE.
The politicians make awful choices as to where those dollars go.... Get rid of oil altogether in the US (Brazil did it--in what--10 or 20 years?), and the middle east can blow each other up all day if they like.
I sometimes just feel that large-scale science and public works programs in the US are gone forever.... The Panama Canal, the Hoover Dam, the US Highway System, the development of the Atomic Bomb (the Atomic Age, really), and putting men on the moon... All those projects were done relatively quickly. The energy problem is certainly more complicated, requiring many technologies and changes over a broad scale, but completely within CURRENT human ability.
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