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Dear Troublemaker:<BR>
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No one really knows when oil will run out totally, or exactly how much can be sucked from our dear Mother Earth. Some predict with super computers and more graphs than Dale Courtney can throw at MSD predicting their demise, that before we burn all the oil in the ground, the environmental damage will bring this energy orgy to a halt faster than the Womens/Mens Temperance Union. Once Florida floods from rising sea levels, suddenly the US Congress will find God in alternative energy! "Oh Canada" has huge oil reserves in sand, whatever that means, but it is expensive to extract, though the happy face technology wizards may solve the extraction expense problem.<BR>
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The focus should be on the fact that regardless of how much oil there is, or exactly when it will run out, it will run out. And yes, Mr. Troublemaker, you echoed what I have said for years, pondering in my little pea brain, that because oil is an important resource, valuable for many products besides gas and heating oil, should we not be saving it for the use of future generations?<BR>
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Future generations? Oh gee, what does this matter? As Secretary of the Interior under Reagan, James Watt, once said, the second coming is at hand, so we need not worry about the environment. Or we need not worry that perhaps future generations will view our current squandering of one of the earth's greatest riches as an offense against them?<BR>
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Why, those ungrateful brats! After all, future generations will inherit a planet that has been subjected to human caused mass extinction on a scale comparable to other periods of non-human caused mass extinction over the past few billion years, and lots of wonderful new coastline, though it will be very recently formed from the advance of the sea destroying all major harbors globally.<BR>
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Should I go on? You think I exaggerate? I'm some environmental extremist? At least I don't predict beings on clouds coming out of the sky and saving the righteous while the sinners are left behind, like millions of people who believe in the second coming...<BR>
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I'm in hot water now, and it's not from global warming...<BR>
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I better be quiet. The faithful seek to strike down the wicked: those who worship the earth and betray the kingdom beyond...<BR>
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Ted Moffett, mini-me troublemaker<BR>
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