alt.politics.bush

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:47:33 GMT, Roedy Green
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

>Unlike cocaine addicts, oil addicts will be weaned off oil whether
>they consent or not, because, like land, they aren't making any more
>oil. The price has to keep shakily climbing without limit as the
>supply dwindles.

Just as you have pushers addicting people to drugs for profit, we have
oil pushers, urging us to consume preposterous quantities of oil just
to get to work. In my grandfather's day, people got around on one
horsepower (literally one horse). Today, we have been sold the
preposterous notion we need 300.

For optimum health, we should be doing what the Dutch do, nearly
everyone travels by human power. You don't see grossly obese Dutch
people. You don't even see fat ones.

The oil pushers cousins to the fast food pushers. People need some
food, but the food pushers encourage people to eat food that will kill
them.
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