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Psychiatry students were in their Emotional Extremes class. "Let's set some parameters," the professor said. "What's the opposite of joy?" he asked one student.
"Sadness," he replied.
"The opposite of depression?" he asked another student.
"Elation," he replied.
"The opposite of woe?" the prof asked a young man called Lyle.
The Southern Gentleman replied, "Sir, I believe that would be giddyup."
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If God wanted us to be vegetarians, why are animals made of meat ?
Man Made Global warming is complete and utter crap...what happened from the 1970's til now? NOTHING! I thought we were all supposed to die horrible deaths from Global Warming YEARS ago.........hey I'm still here so let's just put this myth of MAN MADE global warming to bed....pollution is bad but it's not "brewing giant hurricanes" as Al Gore suggests
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Oil IS renewable, if it wasn't we'd be out of it and not finding MORE of it.
As for Carter...did he do better or worse than FordThe numbers and the American people say WORSE, it doesn't matter how or what Carter's policies were or what they affected those numbers show that Carter's policies didn't work
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I won't fight you on Carter. He was prez when I was born and I always heard he sucked. And oil is not renewable. There is a finite amount even if we haven't found most of it yet. The Earth is only so big and oil isn't growing, it's just setting where ever and we're drinking it up. Besides, renewable or not, demand has increased and thus price. Tapping offshore reserves only insures more money for oil companies and not reserves for only Americans to use and be able to get on the cheap. China drives the price up by coming out the pocket to whomever has it and those American oil companies getting it offshore would just as likely sell it to them as to us. We need to shift to resources, whatever they may be, that are less effected by supply-and-demand principles, create more diversity in the marketplace by taking our eggs out of one basket that is oil and begin to learn how to live with less. If I had the dough I'd love to have my house fitted with solar panels. I heard Ian McKellan say he sells electricity back to the utility company. Our American mentality of consuming without awareness of the effects or side effects has to end.
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Oil is a natural substance and was made before humans were here and various gases and substances are found on other planets which have (we can assume) never sustained life and therefore this idea that oil is made up of fossils is kind of silly.
We have more oil on this earth than we can use in my lifetime and I plan on living a while....I mean if we really buckled down and used more everyday then MAYBE we'd hit a couple bumps in the road due to the refining process but there's plenty oil out there.
Forget everything you think you know about oil
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The problem with that thinking is you leave it to someone else down the line to deal with. Sure we have enough, but if we remain dependent on it when it does go into short supply then the prices rocket through the roof and industry becomes crippled. And think about what has happened to gas prices while we've had enough. In 1997 I paid (however briefly) $.70 per gallon and could fill up my tank for less than $10. A little over a decade later and we've crept over $4. With sky high demand that will only increase in the coming years you really don't think we need to do anything to diversify where we get our energy from?
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....don't try to help me Clubber
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