have joined battle for the White House: for the privilege of facing the issues selected by the mass media with the policies promoted by them. As for Congress, in Mexico or South Africa there is some chance to turn the rascals out; but in the US House of Ill Repute the incumbents have a 98.4% probability of staying on
¾Democrats until decrepitude, and Republicans until caught stealing more than is customary.If you believe in mere words, the Democratic energy platform recommends that the country reduce its reliance on nuclear power; but if you watch deeds, Dukakis has helped to kill 170 people by the substitute power since he prevented Seabrook going on line in July 1986.
In his feverish attempts to out-Dukaka Dukakis, Bush has con-demned off-shore-drilling (except when speaking in Texas and Louisiana) and generally presents himself as a balding Rachel Carson. His proposal to introduce corn-based ethanol as an auto-mobile fuel shows statesmanship, for it may carry Iowa and maybe even Nebraska. But the Los Alamos Labs have just concluded a study in Rio de Janeiro (where it is used extensively) and found that even with catalytic converters it produces aldehyde, increased amounts of "greenhouse gases" and toxic compounds.
To combat the greenhouse effect, he said in the first debate, he would switch to natural gas, which produces roughly as much CO
2 per kWh as other fossils, plus methane by leakage and incomplete combustion. This is to be expected from any politician, especially from one who tries to show off his fluency in Spanish by expertly dropping a comme ci, comme ca. More interesting were the media moguls questioning Bush, including Tom Brokaw, who daily in-struct you in the finer points of science and technology, and who were waiting to pounce on Bush for the slightest error. Yet not one of these scientific prodigies noticed the blooper.Ron Paul's energy position is impeccable. So is his honesty, moral fiber and courage. But he is running for a party dominated by leftist anarchists who scream liberty, yet mumble non-interven-tion when liberty is to be defended against totalitarianism.
Sit it out? Trouble is Dukakis is such a persuasive campaigner.
Listen to him, and he will persuade you to vote against him.
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Vol. 16, No. 3
Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive Volume: Issues Issue/No.: Vol. 16, No. 3 Date: December 01, 2004 02:09 PM (For actual publication date see newsletter.) Title: A tale of two gases
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