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When politicians and journalists drive technical decisions they seldom get it right. Ethanol increases CO2 emissions and drives up food costs. Besides, soil for growing bio-crops is not renewable. Where will the electric power come if autos are converted to battery power like GM's Volt. Anyone who thinks hydrogen powered fuel cells are a solution better start promoting nuclear power to generate the hydrogen. The second law of thermodynamics means that more energy will be used to create hydrogen than can be recovered. Al Gore's plan to eliminate fossil fuels in 10 years is ludicrous. So is Al Gore. T. Boon Pickens is out to pick our pockets so he can get richer

I wonder how many shares of Fanny Mae and Freddy mac are owned by members of congress, the administration and their staffs?

If the internet was based on use charges and not advertising then ther would be a penalty for overuse of bandwith. Also I think spam would be largely reduced. Streaming color video on PCs and cell phones uses up bandwitt that wold be better used for information, Streaming color video also slows down every thing e.g. while my browser is loading such an ad that I have no interest in. Same holds for cable video. The internet industry is squandering bandwith and driving hardware product cycles so short that equipment and software is foisted on users before it is finished because product life is so short the developmengt costs to get it right can not be recovered.

THE MEDIA ALMOST UNIVERSALLY IGNORED THE CONFERENCE. NOT A PEEP IN NY TIMES EXCEPT AD FOR CONFERENCE. ONLY ONE BRIEF REFEFRENCE ON FOX'S BRIT HUME PROGRAM AND THAT FEATURED THE FACT THAT OBJECTIONS WERE RAISED BY A BROADCAST WEATHER MAN. A FEW YEARS AGO I LOOKED AT ABOUT 50 WORLD WIDE WEATHER STATION RECORDS (NCDC) FROM THE PERIOD CIRCA 1860 TO 1995( THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF STATIONS) AND THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF WARMING OR COOLING. PALEOLITHIC RECORDS PUBLISHED IN"SCIENCE" - NOT KNOWN AS A RABID CONSERVATIVE PUBLICATION- SHOW THAT CLIMATE CHANGES CYCLICALLY FROM MUCH COLDER THAN NOW TO MUCH WARMER AND CO2 HAS OFTEN BEEN AS HIGH OR HIGHER THAN NOW. I SUPPOSE AL GORE DOESN'T READ "SCIENCE".