I was listening to horse face, Laura Ingram, briefly yesterday. She was ridiculing the idea of driving slower, keeping your house a little warmer in the summer and cooler in the winter, and other ways of saving energy. I guess we should all just go to the mall and ring up debt, and then drive as much as we want, to hell with conserving anything.

Polock,


Do you have her actual words?


As much as environmentalists irritate me, I can't see mocking personal initiatives toward conservation.

Jeff,
No, I don't sorry. It was on yesterdays show, about 1:30 p.m. CST or so. She was going on about how Carter once gave an address in a sweater to highlight the idea of keeping the temp low and wearing a sweater, and how silly she thought that was. Then she started in on the adjusting your thermostat, rant. Said something about you should keep your house as warm/cold as you want, who are "they" to tell us how to live, etc. All in all, the part I heard was maybe 2-3 minutes.

"The failure of Mr. Bush to fully mobilize the most powerful innovation engine in the world -- the U.S. economy -- to produce a scalable alternative to oil has helped to fuel the rise of a collection of petro-authoritarian states..."

exactly.
the last eight years have been wasted and we are waist deep in oil refuse and blood as a result.

i had mentioned the carter energy plan several times on these pages recently as the key to this quagmire. reagan dismantled it in rapid fashion going so far as to take the solar collectors off of the white hours. the beginning and the key to the next 30 year's energy policy and hence, a war that is, if not winnable, certainly costly and ill-advised on every front.

and will our next leader have the balls to step up to the plate and give a kennedy/moon launch style challenge to america?
don't hold your breath.

all the best