man, it's clear nader is a total ego maniac. the dems don't want him to run, the green party doesn't even want him to run, about the only people who do want him in the race are republicans (oh, and pat buchanan what ever party he's with now).
i guess i'm just bitter because i voted for him in 2000 (not that it made any difference in nevada). it's hard to look back at the last three years and say that there would be no difference between bush and gore. i doubt we'd be in iraq and we probably wouldn't be facing down record deficits.
billmon has a great article that examines the way that the differences between democrats and republicans will affect the global warming issue. some of the comments link to some pretty scary topics.
the peak oil link has me a bit freaked out. the short of it is that oil production follows a bell curve. the initial production is the easiest and cheapest creating a growing demand. once the peak it hit it becomes exponentially more expensive to produce oil but because of a lack of alternatives, demand can't decrease. the big question is when we hit the peak. the alternative fuels can't sustain our economy. nuclear, wind, solar, geothermal, the won't work in planes, boats or cars and they can't be used to make fertilizer or plastics. if some magic energy source came along tomorrow we'd still have to convert all our infrastructure over to it. it's real easy to get from here to a mad max scenario.
with that kind of epic problem it is pretty easy to say well democrat or republican it's doesn't really matter. the point that billmon makes in his article is that, yes, it does matter. the democrats may not do much but the republicans' actions have bordered on willful negligence.
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