RE: [RC] - Smith, DaveWell, thank you, but I do apologize if Angie or anyone else thinks I was attacking her personally. But I don't apologize for my opinion. And I disagree with those who suggest this is a topic unfit for Ridecamp. The cost of fuel affects each of us who has ever hooks a horse trailer to a truck; ever looks at a ride calendar to determine which ride we can afford to travel to or simply has to dig deeper in our pocketbooks to pay for our horse feed. Indeed, unlike laminitis, or torn hip muscles, the cost of fuel is the one problem confronting every one of us each day of the week. I also disagree with those who say we can do nothing about it, so why discuss it? That we are mere corks caught up in the stream of energy politics. That we are victims of diminishing resources. Well, I'm no victim. I believe we can -- and should -- do something about this growing problem. And a good place to start is to begin to really look at the people we elect to Congress and to our state houses and examine what are the intended and unintended consequences of electing them. No longer should they get our vote simply because they claim to be "pro-environment." No longer should we elect them simply because the Sierra Club or some other "environmental" group says we should. We need to take our role as citizens more seriously and really look at these people, not just their 20-second sound bite. Well I've pretty much said my piece and now I will get off this topic since it apparently makes some people uncomfortable. But that discomfort will be nothing in comparison to the future discomfort we all will face unless we begin to elect leaders who will actually solve this problem. -----Original Message----- From: D'Arcy Demianoff-Thompson [mailto:liberty4640@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:06 PM To: Smith, Dave Subject: Re: [RC] Oh, Dave, you don't have anything to apologize for. It is a good thing that we live in a land of freedoms! :) As such we have the opportunity to express them as you well did. Treehugger or not - Excellent post! D'Arcy D'Arcy L. Demianoff-Thompson liberty4640@xxxxxxxxx =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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