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  • Hey Black Wallaby

    As an AGW skeptic what is your take on Peak Oil?

    Personally, I label myself a conservative and am skeptical (or perhaps agnostic is a bit better) about AGW primarily because CO2 is such a small percentage of our atmosphere.  With that said, I favor a radical change in our energy usage/infrastructure due to simple economic realities concerning Peak Oil.

    So you being an obviously intelligent person that is fact oriented I was wondering what was your take on Peak Oil.On 'Global warming stopped in 1998'--Only if you flagrantly cherry pick posted 1 year, 4 months ago 170 Responses

  • Jon, You have got to be kidding

    You said:

    the car and airline companies are taking full advantage, gaining huge profits because of this public investment.

    Let me cite you some information to remove your ignorance on this subject.

    1st Quarter Results for the 3 Biggest Airlines

    Southwest did stellar with a $34 million profit.
    American not so good at a loss of $328 million.
    Delta not so good with a reported loss of $6.4 billion.

    Well, maybe the car industry did better.  Let's see.

    Ford had a profit of $100 million but GM had a loss of $3.3 billion.

    So if you add this all up you have results somewhere near a $10 billion loss for the first quarter of this year.  My guess is that the second quarter was even worse but the numbers are obviously not out yet.

    My point being we are never going to get the public to come around on the issue of Peak Oil/AGW if we speak or write ignorantly.  We need everyday conservatives/Republicans to start becoming aware that this isn't the same old liberal BS.  We need to end the left/right blame game.  We need more education and more facts.

    The people on this site and others have an obligation to be well read and post informatively, not just spout non-sense because it ultimately hurts the cause, which, is neither a liberal nor conservative cause.On McCain just not that into Amtrak posted 1 year, 4 months ago 39 Responses