From: "Glenn Meadows" 

I didn't take the book to be an agenda piece, at all, and I was prepared
for that.  Although, I should have known, that he's fall on both sides of
suspected agendas from his TV reports of a similar nature.  Many times in
the book, when he's dealing with broad topics and drilling into specific
myths, he admits he changed his mind from what much conventional wisdom is,
when he did the research and cut thru the BS.

I don't consider the book a wasted effort, nor biased.  I learned a few
things that made me stop and think about my notions on things.

Check our a copy from the library .

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Glenn M.
"Tony Williams"  wrote in message
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> [alternatives to oil]
>
> Glenn Meadows wrote:
>> Such as?
>
> Figuring out the most viable would be a good start. Interesting article in
> the latest Sci-Am about combined hydrogen/superconducting pipelines. Seems
> a bit blue-sky to me but they make an interesting case.
>
> Then we have all the usual suspects like solar, wind, tidal, biofuels.
> With the price of oil so high these all look a lot more attractive and if
> oil prices stay high there will be (fingers crossed) time to develop
> infrastructure and expertise enough that at least some of them will become
> cheaper than oil even if oil prices fall.
>
> And let's not forget nuclear.
>
> Personally, I'd like to see decent electric or hydrogen-burning cars.
> Centralise any pollution production to where the electricity is generated
> or hydrogen cracked so it can be dealt with more efficiently.
>
>> I just finished reading John Stossel's latest book, "Lies,
Myths...",
>> quite interesting.  He goes into some interesting depth on topics such as
>> energy. An interesting read.
>
> From the summary and reviews he appears to be one of those "love him or
> hate him" types who has an agenda to push. Nothing wrong with that for
> entertainment, but how is he on the science?
>
> --
> Tony

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