bbehring
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I find it amazing how some on this forum can be critical and juge someone over failed govenmental policy and activism that stems from the 70's to now. Like we have any say in all the crap that either side is spewing out? All the little media snipits, articles, blogs, and discussions about global warming, climate cooling/warming, carbon foot print etc, just make me sick. We need to take care of our home land now and shore up our economy. You all know damn well that you'll do anything to keep what you have created, as well as protect your family. That's not greed that's just plain survival and protection as a father/provider. Anyone that says they will give up this or that (their job, their house for the sake of cooling the planet or being green) for their family is lying through their teeth. No one knows me from adam and I yet I have been termed the "greedy bas?!@#d". Actually, I'm quite the opposite. I pay my taxes, give to charity, donate my time and money to my church and charity, give back to my employees - often, practice good reefkeeping (see my note below about giving my corals away), work to cut my energy consumption. I have replaced all the incandescent light bulbs in my house with compact flourescents. My wife does not use plastic bags to bag our groceries, we recycle all our cans, bottles, and glass and even run our appliances in the late evening to do our part. My AC has the alternate power chip where the utility can shut my AC off in case of power emergency. I believe most that criticized me for my comment "Drill now pay less" missed my fist post where I noted that I just gave up my 4,000 gal pond of 18 years (try filling in that hole!) to cut my power and water usage and I'm activly pursuing solar for my home (which is an investment in clean technology, since payback is over 10 years still). I also drive a Haundi Alantra which gets 30 miles to the gallon. My family is NOT in the oli business or any such sort of an oil exec. My mom simply owns property with oil wells on it along with the mineral drilling rights. While the lack of pumping my mom's wells is somewhat cost related, most is environmental impact issues, which are false and unfounded. I have also given away (yes that's given away) some of my cherry corals to people in the So Cal area each month for some time now. While I am coservative, I'm not naive to believe we can drill out of the mess we are in. We need to do both, tap our resources to eliminate purchasing large percenage of our oil from Opec, building nuclear plants, while developing clean technologies. One thing that no one can answer, is when will all the clean technology be on line to sustain our economy and way of life, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years? It's not here right now and not cost effective or we'd be doing it. It's just like the ethanol, sounds like a good idea till you impact the world food supply and impact rivers with nitrogren from growing only super corn! Oops! Anyway, my beliefs are consistent and strong, based on life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness! And oh yes, I would work in a coal mine, nuclear plant, McDonalds, Sewer plant etc to take care of my family. I even cleaned fish crap from fish ponds for a living several years back so don't preach at me about what I won't do! Regardless of what is said here, I consider myself very blessed with all that I have and very successful, and it's not wholy from the $$ I make, it's from having family and friends and liberty!
. Oh, and your definition of middle class in terms of income not "percentage of wealth".
