OT two+ buck a gallon gas AAARRRGGGGHHH

[j]

> I'm afraid I can't let it go by without comment. That book ["The 
> Skeptical Environmentalist"] and its author has been widely 
> discredited by real environmental scientists. Businesses, governments 
> (US and the current conservative Australian) and many ordinary people 
> like the book because it says "Don't worry, it will all be OK in the 
> end". But it is misinformation put together in a way that might be 
> most politely described as damaging distortions.

Galileo was discredited by the authoritarian power structure when he 
suggested the radical idea that the Earth revolves around the sun.  The 
lesson: don't put all your eggs in the "expert" basket.  Believe 
nothing without skepticism, even things labeled "proven facts" by those 
"real scientists."  In fact, the more insistent someone is that "x is 
true," one is probably well advised to approach the idea with even more 
suspicion.

J.