From: Eeyore on 2 Nov 2006 07:33 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >The last thing I'd fancy after a long flight is shopping ! > > I observed this behaviour when we went to China. Our tour > groups were upper middle class people. We arrived at the > Great Wall and the shopaholics turned left to go into the > store while we turned right to go on the Great Wall and walk > a little bit of it. These people never saw the Great Wall. > > They went half-way around the world and didn't even bother to > look at a remarkable feat of the human species. Americans ??? Graham
From: Eeyore on 2 Nov 2006 07:35 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > I listen to people and their stories rather than cite an > anonymous survey put out by the government. What 'anonymous survey' ? Graham
From: Eeyore on 2 Nov 2006 07:36 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > I am not talking about oil becoming uncompetitive. I am talking > about oil suddenly becoming unavailable. That should be a > scenario considered by all heads of state, not just the US. It's not going to happen short of nuclear war. Graham
From: jmfbahciv on 2 Nov 2006 07:32 In article <eiashg$drm$1(a)news-int2.gatech.edu>, david.bostwick(a)chemistry.gatech.edu (David Bostwick) wrote: >In article <5oshk217oi02qvuhp0g8vmbi3turugqrjg(a)4ax.com>, Jonathan Kirwan <jkirwan(a)easystreet.com> wrote: >>On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:33:26 GMT, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> >>><snip> >>>>>You can't keep attributions straight, neither can you keep >>>>>the people you're talking to straight. I never refused to >>>>>read the article. All your arguments are similarly confused. >>>> >>>> Saddam killed well over a million. >>> >>>Evidence, please. >>> >>>Eric Lucas >> >>It's just interesting that the argument is about who is worse, Saddam >>or Bush. Maybe we can compare between Hitler and Bush, too? >> >>Note: >>http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MOR20061029& art >>icleId=3618 >> >>Jon > >Godwin alert. Not really. It's a tactic that the Democrats started in the House and the comparison is now used by the common people. This is one sound byte that can be easily traced back. /BAH
From: Eeyore on 2 Nov 2006 07:38
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > "MooseFET" <kensmith(a)rahul.net> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> In article <4qnbicFo0aioU1(a)individual.net>, > > >> >China is massively investing in coal liquefaction plants. > >> > >> When I was there in the 80s, their economy was based > >> on all coal. ARe they working on development autos that > >> can run on coal tar? > > > >No, they are working on making liquid fuel for cars out of coal. They > >aren't changing the cars. They are changing the coal. > > > OK. I found a book on the world's coal reserves at the dump. > I'll try to find it in my piles of books and take a look. > > How much energy does it take to turn coal into a liquid > combustible fuel that can be used by today's engine designs? Ask Sasol. They've been doing it for ages. http://www.sasol.com/sasol_internet/frontend/navigation.jsp?navid=1&rootid=1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer-Tropsch_synthesis Graham |