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"R. Hubbell" wrote in message news:kp1Cb.56$pY.17@fed1read04... Look past the "market", move away the curtain and look what's really behind it if you have the capacity to do so. The planet is not inexhaustible, unfortunately. R. Hubbell Name one thing, of which, the planet has ever run out. Trees can be replanted and in a matter of years you can't tell they were ever gone. We will not ever run out of oil. It will become more expensive but as it does the motivation to create an alternative will increase. That is what an free market does. Left alone a free market will cause all materials to be used for the most efficient use. |
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Aviation related:
Passenger Pigeons comes to mind. -- Montblack http://lumma.de/mt/archives/bart.gif "Gig Giacona" Name one thing, of which, the planet has ever run out. Trees can be replanted and in a matter of years you can't tell they were ever gone. |
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In article 0l1Cb.55$pY.42@fed1read04, "R. Hubbell"
writes: We can't buy jet engines from or electric generators from emerging nations because they don't sell them. We buy cheap labor from them because that is what, for now, they have to offer. The alternative is to not buy what they have to sell and let them do without our wheat and technology. See above. In other words, you have no answer. -- Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS PP-ASEL Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG |
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In article kp1Cb.56$pY.17@fed1read04, "R. Hubbell"
writes: writes: Those $5 picture frames will have a long term cost that cannot be paid back. Those $5 picture frames are what those folks have to offer, for now. At least until all the forests are gone there, yes. Uh huh, so you think they're going to deplete the rainforests making picture frames. So,you have no real answers, just leftist slogans. Next come the accussations of greed. Don -- Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS PP-ASEL Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG |
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In article Co2Cb.502462$HS4.3878194@attbi_s01, "Jay Honeck"
writes: How, exactly, does one pressure France? Short of standing on their border and shouting at them in German. On the contrary, I believe we have found the PERFECT method of pressuring the French (and other so-called "allies") -- we have quite simply disqualified them from bidding on any reconstruction contracts in Iraq. This has been "Big News" the last couple of days, as if it were somehow revolutionary to exclude disloyal nations from reaping the benefits of our labors. Personally, I call it "justice". Money talks. Expect Bush to let them bid after they forgive all or part of the Iraqi debt. Which should be called the Baathist debt since the Iraqi's never benefited from it, and they should be collecting it from Saddam. But still, when they make the cocession of forgiving that debt, Bush will let them in . Don -- Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS PP-ASEL Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG |
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In article , "Gig Giacona"
writes: That is what an free market does. Left alone a free market will cause all materials to be used for the most efficient use. Sadly, they never seem to let it alone, a clods like Jimmy Carter who think they are smarter than the market cause havoc trying to "do good." Don -- Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS PP-ASEL Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG |
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Gig Giacona wrote: Name one thing, of which, the planet has ever run out. Cuban mahogany. We will never, ever see marketable trees of this again as long as the world lasts. The list of extinct animals is a lot longer and growing all the time. George Patterson Some people think they hear a call to the priesthood when what they really hear is a tiny voice whispering "It's indoor work with no heavy lifting". |
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ET wrote: Uh, last I checked, tree's are a crop.... That's like saying "plants are a crop", and is just as inaccurate. Nobody on Earth is planting black walnut or black cherry trees. I doubt there will ever come a time when people in the U.S. are willing to plant a crop that can't be harvested for 150 years or so. Even with the slash pine, which is grown as a crop in the south, the stuff being harvested today is junk compared to what I used to be able to buy as 2x4s 30 years ago. Cuban mahogany (the stuff that Chippendale worked) is extinct as a lumber tree. George Patterson Some people think they hear a call to the priesthood when what they really hear is a tiny voice whispering "It's indoor work with no heavy lifting". |
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Wdtabor wrote: Uh huh, so you think they're going to deplete the rainforests making picture frames. The Indonesians are doing exactly that, and have been for at least 15 years. George Patterson Some people think they hear a call to the priesthood when what they really hear is a tiny voice whispering "It's indoor work with no heavy lifting". |
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Statistics from the US government no less http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/2000presgeresults.htm Bush 47.87% (50,456,897) vs Gore 48.38% (50,999,897) Doesn't look overwhelming to me. You are misinterpretting the data that the map represents. - Carl - "Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:ja2Cb.310866$Dw6.1046389@attbi_s02... If you do a web search you'll see reports of between 200,000 to 500,000 popular votes favoring Gore and of course an argument of what that really means. C'mon, the USA Today election map at http://mwhodges.home.att.net/usmap-large.gif clearly shows that the country OVERWHELMINGLY supported Bush. The fact that the big cities happen to have more dead voters just graphically illustrates who is GETTING the tax money, versus who is PAYING it. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.550 / Virus Database: 342 - Release Date: 12/9/2003 |
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