You guys both sound like PR spindoctors for BigOil..
Not like they'd have any of them on the internet defending the indefensible (killing troops for profit) but you know...it is a remote possibility...
Pidgey writes,
The thing is that you cannot convince me that installing a nuclear facility is cheaper than installing a geothermal one of comparable output. You just cannot. And you're not fooling anyone saying you can. You cannot tell me that it is more expensive to install a solar farm, moreso than an offshore oil rig...along with payroll, maintenance and disaster cleanup costs...
You just can't pull the old decades-long wool over the eyes of Joe Public anymore. We know we're running out of oil. We know alternatives have been controlled and suppressed by BigOil. And we know as a direct result of that, US Troops are dying in numbers in the Middle East.
We know the Georgia situation isn't about lofty socialist ideals from either the US or Russia. It is, plain and simply, about controlling oil. Oil. Oil. Oil.
We have a series of hurricanes back to back pounding the Eastern and Gulf seaboard. On the beach I go to sometimes, the low tide mark is now where the high tide used to be. High tide falls daily on the record tide line...and so on..
Icecaps are melting, the climate is going to hell. We're getting raped at the pumps and soldiers are dying overseas. Guess what? A brain-dead toad could trace the breadcrumbs back to the gist of this article: