[IP] more on The Long Emergency
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From: "Gordon C. Thomasson, Ph.D." <gthomas1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: July 17, 2005 6:55:55 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] more on The Long Emergency
Hate to be the party pooper-historian, but don't blame the boomer/
hippie/yuppies. There was, until Reagan-Republicans (the same crowd
that run the White House now) were bought/bribed by American-junk car
manufacturers, something called the CAFE standard, that mandated
increasing Automotive Fuel Efficiency. Since foreign manufacturers
were on track to meeting it and US industry wasn't interested, Reagan
simply killed it [Presto: instead of conservation and alternative
power, energy crisis for the 21st century]. Before CAFE was killed
there was quite a bit of concern. But the blame for killing CAFE
goes to a generation in power before the boomers had even sobered up
from the 1960s, let alone exerted a substantial impact on the ballot
box.
Gordon C. Thomasson
...
"During the Clinton presidency, baby-boomer hippies had matured
into yuppies who enjoyed the benefits of cheap oil so much (and
were so spoiled by it) that they fell easily into a consensus
trance regarding America's energy future: party on.
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