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Just a thought
Not for anything... but gas prices in this nation have remained low for a LONG time. Like everything, it eventually goes up. Milk goes up, eggs go up, clothes go up, diapers go up, and pay goes up. Problem with oil is, once it's gone, ain't gonna be no more. I'll know when the price of gas is high, when the kids no longer buzz by my house on atvs and return to bikes.
It is beyond me how, the first nation to develop nuclear power would be so far behind in using it for the betterment of it's society. We as a nation should NOT need to use coal, or oil, or natural gas to heat our homes, or make our electricity. When are we, as a society, going to grow beyond the fright of the nuclear boogyman, and USE this energy to it's full potential??? Hell, if we can make a nuke plant for an aircraft carrier that can run for 12 YEARS without refueling... Why are we not using this to power our society? It makes very little sense to me; why we would rather pollute the air and water with coal and oil smoke, when we can use clean nuke power.
Personally, I think it comes from the 50s and 60s cold war fears of a nuke war.
We, as a society, NEED to get off these fossile fuels ASAP. Sure they helped fuel the industrial age, but, everyone knew these things would run out. What we really need to do is make middle east oil worthless. The sooner we no longer have to deal with them, the better.
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"...as far as rights go, I look at them this way. I won't tell you what kind of church to go to, you don't tell me what kind of firearm I can own."
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Finally, I believe that punishing lawful gun owners by creating new, more onerous laws, and restricting Constitutionally guaranteed rights, when we already don't enforce the tens of thousands of gun laws we have on the books, is like beating your dog because the neighbor's dog shit in your yard.
"The Reaper"
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