[mdlug-discuss] Ethanol vs gasoline economy [Was: [mdlug] Automotive technical info ...]

[Ingles, Raymond]

> From: Robert Adkins

>     If understanding the potential need to be able to defend 
> oneself by having an industry that could be retooled makes someone a 
> warmonger... I just don't know what to say. Really, that's an absurd 
> position to hold.

 I don't see that as a significant issue when our defense budget is
greater than that of the rest of the world combined. Right now, any
nation would be stupid to oppose us militarily - it would be suicidal.
(Transnational groups with no fixed base of operations - like Al Quaeda - 
are a different story. But they don't have a real military of the kind
that could attack the U.S. anyway.)

>     Right now, that base is on a major decline and we need to stop that 
> just to ensure that if needed ourselves or our children or their 
> children will have the tools to be able to defend the lifestyle we have 
> built for ourselves in this nation. Is that a wrong position to hold?

 I think rather we should be working on a more advanced manufacturing
capability that can take plans and synthesize finished products in an
automated but economical way. Then we can retool far more rapidly yet.

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                       (313) 227-2317

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