Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 09:26:13 -0600
Reply-To: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: Electrical pollution?
In-Reply-To: <BE06402D.6F86%camper@tactical-bus.info>
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JimT,
Thanks for the rebuttal. I did not expect anything less.
Best regards,
John Rodgers
88 GL driver
jimt wrote:
>On 1/9/05 12:31 AM, "two.tone.tool.box" <kite.wagon@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>>I'm sorry John but... why?? I cannot let that BS about Mexican
>>"Hoards" and "rats eating all the grain" go unchallenged (I know i
>>shouldnt, sorry everyone else in advance). Your racist, over the top
>>generalizations have nothing to do with your vanagon, my vanagon or
>>this list, or the future powering of the global economy. First of
>>all, its not resources that immigrants come for, as you claim, its
>>_jobs_. Thats why Europe is all also "browning" to use your crude
>>terminology, even though the Isles and the Continent have a lot less
>>natural resources per person than this country. Mexico and South
>>America are resource rich.
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>Normally I would remain silent on this type of issue but straight facts.
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>Here in colorado our electrical rates are up to pay for the dismantling of a
>nuclear power facility that was not sustainable or repairable to meet
>current standards. The increase in rates is already forecasted to far
>exceed the savings from the nuclear power that was derived from it. The
>power company must pay its share of putting the highly reactive parts into
>deep storage and all costs associated with getting it there. Cheap nuclear
>power is proving to be very expensive. Look at three mile island with a
>reactor that is costing money as it sits dead because of maintenance and
>inspections to make sure it stays sealed. As yet europe has not had to
>decommission a reactor and has publicly stated it doesnΉt know how it will
>be handled. Then it is already known that the french government has been
>dumping in the oceans trenches in the deep pacific. When nuclear power was
>brought on line it was thought that technology would have found a way to
>deal with the waste by the time there was any to dispose of. Disposal costs
>took the cheap out and created massive risks.
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>As for migrations of populations...look right here in this country. Massive
>migration from california to colorado by tech firms that could no longer
>afford to have their businesses in california. That fast rapid influx has
>stretched colorados water resources and air quality to its limits. The so
>called "browning effect" (as it may even apply to my exwife and children)
>has no effect on this state. The corporate migration moved million plus.
>International migrants moved very little in effect. Also the international
>migrants pay taxes. The corporate migrants are leaches on the economy with
>their massive tax deductions for making the moves.
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>jimt
>Planned insanity is best.
>Remember that sanity is optional.
>http://www.tactical-bus.info (tech info)
>http://www.westydriver.com
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