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I have to wonder why no one is complaining about the skyrocketing price of gasoline. Oil companies have this whole deal figured out. Get subsidies from the Federal government put it in the bank. Take some refineries off-line just when the summer driving season is starting...cha-ching. Make some vague burping sounds about alternative fuels and manage the oil and gas supplies to maximize profits. You'd almost think the current administration was on big-oil's payroll...America passively gets out the credit card.

Nobody really wants to pay for the fight against global warming...the G8 criticizes Bush but they play their own shell game. The economic impact of reducing emissions will undoubtedly slow the assimilation of any new energy technologies. Politicians never want to be the guy telling voters the bad news. In the case of alternative energy, the new economy and technologies that could emerge from implementing and developing alternative energy technology would almost certainly offset much of the economic downside of changing our energy gulping behavior.

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