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...however, have bothered to explore if such a diversion is even possible or how it might be accomplished, which is what I set out to do with my column this week. When I looked at the numbers, I was surprised to see that, amply motivated, the United States could wean itself entirely from Persian Gulf oil, given current global oil production patterns. Let me explain how this could be done...
...Then tell them all to stuff Kyoto, and announce your firm intention to intention to wean America off coal in ten years, natural gas in 20, and oil in 25. (Let the current nukes die of natural causes.) Corporate tax breaks will be handed out according to cleanliness by the EPA; personal ones for conservation by the DOE. Subsidies will be generously provided so that Big Coal, Big Gas and eventually Big Oil can die a humane death by diversification...
...holds responsible for the death of his brother and fellow gang member, Arjunan. In one of the book's more chilling anecdotes, he kills and then, drawing a sickle from his bag, graphically beheads a forest officer who had built a local school and clinic and tried to wean the community away from criminal activity. Veerappan blamed the official for the suicide of his sister who worked in the man's clinic...
...Viewed in isolation, Peru had been one of the success stories of the war on drugs during the 1990s, when the cultivation of coca, the source of cocaine, was reduced by half with strong policing and incentive programs to wean peasant farmers onto alternative crops. But that didn't cut the supply to the U.S. market - the drug cartels simply shifted their agribusiness across the border into neighboring Colombia, where the long-running civil war created a healthy environment for an industry on the wrong side...
...maybe once the crushing disappointment of rejection lifts and we're able to wean ourselves off these antidepressants, we can move on with our lives and forget that our government - you know, the one of, by and for the people - has forsaken us without so much as a backward glance. And if not, we'll just find a nice deserted cabin in the middle of Montana, buy some camouflage and a copy of "The Anarchist's Cookbook" and start working on improving...