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Well, now you yanked my chain....maybe it does cost a bit more; but gosh, it's still a relatively inexpensive sport or passion in life or whatever.,and thanks to the "environmental movement", at least SOME beautiful places that I ride haven't been clear-cut; drilled, subdivided, paved over or mined to death, and are hopefully to be preserved for MY kids....

 

Sorry but the other only hope I hold for the future energy problem is the development of NEW and clean energy and technology...gee, something us tree huggers are all for...

Karen

 

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From: Smith, Dave

To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:49 PM

Subject: [RC]

I do want to apologize to Angie if I offended.  I certainly didn?t mean to single her out.  On the other hand, I do feel strongly that the environmental movement is one of the main reasons it costs me and my friends more than we can pay to go to all the rides I?d like to take. But, that?s just my opinion. I daily thank my fortune that I live in a land where I can express it.  For what it?s worth, Angie, I?m sorry.

 

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From: Advantage Saddles [mailto:owensall@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:30 PM
To: Smith, Dave
Subject: Re: [RC] Tree Huggers

 

I liked your post, even if Angie McGee isn't a tree hugger.   Sure stirred up the lefties  ;}
Katee

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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