-=> MIMI GALLANDT wrote to JEFF BINKLEY <=-

 MG> Jeff Binkley wrote:

 JB>.MSGID: 1:226/600 000f98a4
 JB>MG>JB>MG>JB>BS>UN condemns Israeli strategy as ª€˜immoralª€™

 JB>MG>JB>MG>JB>Iran and Iraq have ignored how many UN resolutions and
 JB>MG>JB>MG>JB>deadlines ? The  UN has no teeth and is a bunch of
 JB>MG>JB>MG>JB>elitest fools.

 JB>MG>JB>MG>Worse, they're Islamcock suckers too.

 JB>MG>JB>Oil and money.  In 30 years the Middle East will not be nearly
 JB>MG>JB>as  important as it is today. What most people don't realize is
 JB>MG>JB>while  capitalism and industrialism made the Middle East a
 JB>MG>JB>power center, they  will also be the ones which take it away.
 JB>MG>JB>We only have to wait for the  wheels of capitalism to solve the
 JB>MG>JB>problem for us.


 JB>MG>IMHO I think it would be really cool (one might say Karma) if some
 JB>MG>brilliant Israeli scientist invented a motor for a car that didn't
 JB>MG>require any gasoline or any kind of petroleum products at all.


 JB>They already exist.  Capitalism has to make them practical and
 JB>affordable.  It is only a matter of time.

 MG> I'm familiar with the hybrid, which if I understand this correctly,
 MG> uses half gas and half electric but still uses gas.

Not only that but for the most part they simply use petrochemical fuels
burned at remote power plants to generate the electricity that propels
them.

 MG> I'm familiar with
 MG> "natural gas" vehicles the vast majority of SD Transit's busses are
 MG> powered by that, but if I'm recalling what I head correctly natural gas
 MG> is found in pockets along with oil so that doesn't help either. OK I
 MG> know this came from a fiction book but I read about an engine powered
 MG> by hydrogen and I believe that hydrogen is the most common substance in
 MG> the universe, maybe separating hydrogen from other elements makes it
 MG> cost prohibitive I don't know I'm hardly a scientist. :)

 Uh, they're called *elements* because they are not further divisable
into constituent parts.
Hydrogen is indeed the most plentiful element in the universe however
that does not make it economical as a fuel until such time
a cost effective way is found to produce it.

Here's a cutting edge hybrid fuel car.
http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com/
... Patriotism does NOT mean supporting a scorched Earth policy.
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