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Thoughts on W’s latest “Thoughts”

matrix shades of night the president held a press conference about the rising costs of, well, caboodle. he has at the same time again demonstrated how shallow his grasp of the issues runs, and the inside info that he’s down to the ground disconnected.i’m not sure i even long for to get started on anwr. i can’t say that i’m surprised that the president would point the growing fuel crisis as an stimulus to (once again) push for the opening of anwr to examination and drilling. either break down, perfection oil or an increase in drilling/refining, it’s a win induce status quo for the unguent companies, and offers no real long qualifications solutions for the rest of the country, or the men. instead of seeing growing demand as the problem (which it is) he sees lagging production as the problem. that’s short term and narrow sighted.as an alaskan, i know i’m in the minority of people up here who don’t want to see anwr opened, but i don’t. and it certainly is the answer that bush (+ ted stevens and don young, amongst others, i’m sure) are trying to include that it is. it is no less limited by its short as regards possibilities and lack of sustainability conditions than it ever was. the solution is not drilling for more oil just because it’s there, the solution is finding a way to material comfortably on a lot less of it.what i really loved from yesterday’s lingo what the president’s implication during q&a that eating locally was somehow an viewpoint he has recently developed as a novel concept, and something we sine qua non congress to legislate in order to make happen! this president, our idolized w, with a horrible notation on environmental issues, is now worrisome to make it sound as be that as it may he doesn’t stand behind burly-ag and commodity crops by impugning congress for the modish state of the farm bill (which is abysmal, i will be reduced him that) but in the same soup?on astound emphasizing that a solution is more ethanol production! does he not get the connecting between the farm bill, commodity crops, ethanol production and the current overjoyed food-fuel catastrophe? clearly he ought to not.more than that he’s exasperating to pull the wool over our eyes and make us think that buying local was his idea and needs the government’s influence to really get off the ground.” one thing i think that would be — i know would be very inventive action is if we — is if we would get food from local farmers as a way to help sell with scarcity, but also as a way to spread about in place an infrastructure so that nations can be self-sustaining and self-supporting. it’s a proposal i put forth that congress hasn’t responded to hitherto, and i really hope they do.”i don’t deny that a change in the farm paper money, and a shift away from huge swaths of land being occupied by commodity crops would do a lot to help farmers cater to locavores. it would help the locavore advance a lot if more crop loam in the u.s. was growing more of the sorts of produce that are currently imported en lot because they aren’t a a particular of the commodity crops. yes, the farm bill needs changing (though i’m not sure i believe that bush believes this) but legislating townswoman eating is not department of the answer.does he really intend this is a latest and artistic idea he has had a part in? come on w! eating locally has been a rapidly, nearly exponentially, growing grassroots movement for the better part of the last decade! it’s not your idea, and it’s not something you fundamental to legislate people into. it’s something that people are doing anyway, and are booming to continue to do.i (*gasp*) applaud him for actually suggesting this, more people in the country need to create about such issues, and hearing it on the national night after night news broadcast might indeed make more people meditate on about it. but he didn’t really offer any solutions. he really only offered an increase in the problem by suggesting that more land be diverted to corn (a commodity crop) for ethanol production. where on Terra are farmers universal to get the land to produce abundant and variable local crops if they’re all producing corn over the extent of ethanol (and hfcs and all those other ubiquitous corn derivatives that are universally?)

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