From: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 23:28:15 +0800
To: "William H. Geiger III" <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
Subject: Re: Citizenship silliness.  Re: e$: crypto-expatriatism (fwd)
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At 11:22 PM -0500 9/8/98, William H. Geiger III wrote:
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>In <199809082359.SAA12044@einstein.ssz.com>, on 09/08/98
>   at 06:59 PM, Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com> said:
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>>Forwarded message:
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>>> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 18:17:45 -0500
>>> From: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
>>> Subject: Re: Citizenship silliness.  Re: e$: crypto-expatriatism
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>>> planet and take all that fucking oil with them.
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>>I wonder how the new realization that the calthrate deposits in the ocean
>>bottem off the continental shelf make fine fuel and it's replenishable
>>and may be of a larger quantity than the oil reserves will effect the
>>power balance.
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>Once an alternative fuel source is discovered that is more economical than
>oil,

	There already are several, the problem is the cannot be centralized
the way oil is.

	Alcohol is acceptable (and in some ways better) than gasoline for
cars and motorcycles, but anyone can set up a still and compete with RDS &
Standard. A mix of solar, wind, coal, hydroelectric, nuclear and other
sources can provide most of the rest of the power we need. It is just a
matter of being willing to make the investment in the changeover.

> the arabs will slip back into obscurity.

	Yeah, and the US will suddenly find that there is no longer an
reason to provide Isreal with HOW MUCH military support per year?

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                                              They REALLY
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