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Subject: Re: alternate, hopefully safe, energy sources
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Date: Sun, 12-Aug-84 22:15:19 EDT
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Re: The best new energy source is CONSERVATION.

Wrong.  Absolutely, 100% wrong.  Conservation does not produce a single
erg of energy.  It can help gain a little time, but that is it.  Most of
the people who promote conservation as The Solution To All Our Problems
are actually proposing leaving the problem of new energy sources to future
generations, to borrow one of the phrases they're so fond of.

When you talk Conservation Alone, you are talking about zero economic
growth.  This denys upward mobility to those people in the lower economic
groups.  Their only hope of advancement is the economic growth that the
"soft energy" people disdain.  And ultimately, the fossil fuels will be
gone anyway.  What then, if we've dismantled our future to placate the
fears of the technophobes?