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                                              April 19, 2005


    Electric powered vehicles produce more
    pollution than gasoline powered ones, because
    the majority of the electricity in the United
    States is still generated by coal power,
    which kills thousands annually.


    Of the major sources of energy currently in use,
    nuclear power produces is one of the cleanest,
    producing zero emission of green house gasses.
    Coal has no "waste disposal problem", because
    it just goes into the air.


    If astrophysicist Thomas Gold is correct with his
    "Deep Hot Biosphere" theory, what we call fossil
    fuels are abiologic remnants of hydrocarbons of
    cosmic origin, and the supply of them is much
    larger than many suspect.  (The potential sources
    are deep throughout the earth's volume rather
    than just at the surface.)



    Studies show that driving while speaking on a
    cell phone is as dangerous as drunk
    driving. This is a result of the mental
    activity required: hands-free phones are not
    likely to fix the problem.



    A recent study has shown that suburban living is
    bad for you, taking years off of an average
    person's life, evidently due to the lack of
    exercise involved in a automobile based life
    style.



    The number of lives lost annually to car accidents
    in the United States is roughly ten times those
    lost in the World Trade Center attack.



    No Iraqi-Al Qaedi connection has been found,
    and no evidence has been found of Iraqi
    "weapons of mass destruction": the
    administration manipulated the nation into       Al Qaedi began operations
    war for unknown reasons of their own.            in Iraq *after* the US
                                                     invasion.


    The major news media, including nominally
    liberal sources such as the New York Times,
    ignored any indications of weaknesses in
    the rationale for the war.



    In the 2004 presidential election exit poll data
    showed discrepancies with the reported results
    which was worse in areas where electronic voting
    was in use.

    The forms of electronic voting in use in the United
    States has been widely criticized by computer
    voting experts since their inception, since they
    essentially are not auditable.

    The president of Diebold -- one of the three major
    companies that supply such equipment has made no
    secret of his Republican sympathies.

    The major news media widely dismissed exit poll
    data as unreliable -- except in the Ukraine, where
    a similar discrepancy was regarded as obvious
    proof of a corrupt election.



    Senator's Barbara Boxer and Hillary Clinton
    introduced a bill called the "Count Every Vote
    Act" which is among other things calls for a paper
    trail in electronic elections.  Senator Kerry has
    come out in favor of this bill.  It remains an
    almost un-reported story (a google news search has
    consistently listed less than 100 stories since it
    was announced -- currently it shows 20 stories, vs
    over 800 for Michael Jackson.)








Dropped from the above list (now discredited):

    Some scientific reports suggest that cell phone
    radiation is potentially dangerous, e.g. one study
    using mice reported that 2% of brain cells were
    destroyed from comparitively short exposure to
    simulated cell phone radiation.







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