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Old 03-30-2003, 02:33 PM  
Gemini
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The herds are larger NOW, but in the mid 70's when they were dealing with the pipeline being built... ;-) The 23 yrs puts that date to 1980 If I remember all those years back to when I was in High School and right after school, when they were working on the pipe... I d.

I don't know numbers but some animal shows have mentioned the large herd decreases as well as lowering of many other non-herding breeds, during and after the pipe was built. Why bother if so little oil is there? Why not save it as a bank account...

Rules and regulations are Bush's fav things to do away with, ignore or act like he doesn't understand (prob because he doesn't) So they would be done away with as fast as they sprang up.

Know what you mean on the divorces. Alot of men left central Ohio to work on the pipe, unemployment was high here then, and many families ended up split. Let alone the fact that the men couldn't send much of the huge salaries they got, simply due to the extreme costs of things they needed or wanted that the oil companies didn't provide.

The whole point being is to get away from the Middle East where we only procure a small percentage of OUR oil from? Brazil will be pumping more sooner than Alaska could, Venezuela will get their strike problems over sooner... we could be using that 10 yrs on waiting on Alaska to come thru for a big year's worth of oil (as per their estimations), to come up with alternatives.

Sad to say having grown up in the day of Muscle cars, they won't be making a large scale occurrance. We will be driving electric cars that look like scooters while trucks and things will run on carbon based fuels. Until they come up with ways to make the trucks and things run of different fuels as well.

Btw, there are HUGE quantities of gold, say 5 miles down... do we waste a state in order to make the hole large enough to go dig it up? (In response to the gold statement)
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