[TheForge] OT--Gas prices, gas shortages, price gouging?

[Andrew Vida]

Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> Conversion wouldn't be all that difficult.

	Beats the probable alternative outcome.

> Like new nuke plants, new offshore drilling ought to be linked to 
> entirely cleaning up the old installations and their consequences first.

	I agree, their record isn't that good, and I'm being very generous 
here.  Shell in Nigeria was (is?) incredibly bad.  They destroyed 
countless communities, whether by pollution or through employment of the 
Kill And Go.

> We have become masters of stupid and shortsighted it seems...

	Could be, but I am always wary of attributing stupidity to people who 
may actually be very smart and holding intentions that serve purposes we 
(collectively) would not approve.  There are indeed conspiracies out 
there.  Anyone doubting this need only hearken back to Enron, which was 
a Costco-sized conspiracy that just happened to unravel publicly.