nooooo!

[rmd]

the government wants united nuclear to stop selling cool crap from chemistry sets to us folks who don't have a $1000 permit to manufacture explosives (even if it's not for anything even remotely intended for explosives use).

that's no fun at all. harrumf. i may have to write letters.

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[cz_unit]

*nod* I used to live in Boston way back when. Now I live in Maryland, where it doesn't get quite so cold. However it does get chilly, and for the past 2-3 years I have been seriously upping the insulation on my house and caulking up all the cracks. Makes a big difference, I can still heat the house with just the insert (and Boo manor is a big house) till about 5 degrees outside.

I think overall that Bush will go down in history as the greatest friend of the environment ever. Including Thoreau. By wrecking the supply of oil and gas, people will be forced into conservation.

Chris

[lil-brown-bat.livejournal.com]

I think overall that Bush will go down in history as the greatest friend of the environment ever. Including Thoreau. By wrecking the supply of oil and gas, people will be forced into conservation.

Well, that's classic revolutionary theory for ya: things will suck so bad that people will just have to make them better. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite work that way. Non-affluent people in cold climates have been "forced into conservation" long since: my thermostat is set at 50 degrees, and I burn an awful lot of wood. There are some people in my community who have gone through winters where they were forced to move the whole family into the kitchen because that was all they could heat. The people who are hurting now, and have been hurting for years, are the same people who lack the thousands of dollars to "up the insulation" to meaningful r-values, and also lack the power to force policy changes that would lead to more widespread conservation, which is the only thing that could really help the non-affluent in the interim before this science-fiction solution materializes. As long as there's world-wide frenzied consumption of petroleum, at the same time the supply keeps getting tighter for a variety of reasons, the diminishing supply will increasingly go to the highest bidder -- leaving the rest of us, quite literally, out in the cold.