Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site proper.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!nsc!proper!mikevp From: mikevp@proper.UUCP Newsgroups: net.followup,net.politics Subject: Re: alternate, hopefully safe, energy sources Message-ID: <1503@proper.UUCP> Date: Sun, 12-Aug-84 22:15:19 EDT Article-I.D.: proper.1503 Posted: Sun Aug 12 22:15:19 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Aug-84 19:28:44 EDT References: <283@houem.UUCP> Organization: Proper UNIX, San Leandro, CA Lines: 18Re: 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?