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While I will probably be the last person in the room to defend Angie, I 
usually will get out of the way as she defends herself because it is 
safer that way. However, this post is over the top. Time to get back to 
endurance.

Truman

PS: BTW I have never seen Angie hug a tree, however, he buddy Jody - 
well she gets enough Wild Turkey in her and you never know ;-) .

Smith, Dave wrote:
> Angie, I imagine you are a very nice, well-meaning person, but with 
> all due respect, you “tree huggers” are among the main reasons the 
> cost of gasoline has gotten to the point that many of us can no longer 
> afford to drive to many of the rides we would love to join. You tree 
> huggers, and the politicians in your pockets, have opposed at every 
> step the building of new energy infrastructure, like refineries, 
> off-loading ports, and nuclear energy so that today we are incredibly 
> vulnerable to interruptions in our energy supplies brought on by 
> political upheaval in the Mideast and natural calamities such as 
> Katrina here at home. You say that the modern technology needed to tap 
> into the vast oil fields of Alaska, off-coast California and Utah 
> would “rape” these states’ natural resources. But wasn’t that the same 
> dire warnings you “tree huggers” issued when it came to building the 
> Alaska Pipeline 30 years ago? All kinds of mean, nasty things were 
> predicted and almost none ever materialized. According to the tree 
> huggers, the caribou would no longer be able to migrate, great swaths 
> of land would be rendered lifeless due to oil spills, etc. etc. Yet, 
> the caribou are thriving today, along with the rest of Alaska’s 
> wildlife, which coexists with the pipeline. How is it that in your 
> minds, oil has become so evil, when, thanks to oil people live longer 
> and better than ever before in history. Maybe you would like to return 
> to the days when human and animal power were our only forms of energy. 
> But I bet most of us wouldn’t want to join you.


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“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how 
smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong” Richard 
Feynman, Nobel Laureate in Physics


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