You can make a strong case that this is just as much a national defense and economic issue as it is an environmental issue. Our current energy policy is unsustainable and causes us major problems militarily, diplomatically, economically, and even morally.
Not to mention that this will spur growth in new technological research. The French are miles ahead of us, for instance, in their nuclear energy technological capacities. The solar, wind, hydroelectric, and geothermal realms of energy technology also have a lot of room to grow. Even the coal and oil industries aren't as efficient as they could be.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
