Monday, June 25, 2007

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Blames 9-11 on Ronald Reagan and Fuel Efficiency Standards | NewsBusters.org

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Blames 9-11 on Ronald Reagan and Fuel Efficiency Standards NewsBusters.org:

"If we had left those fuel economy standards intact, Ronald Reagan
rolled them back, we would not have had to import one drop of oil after 1986.
Think of what that would have done to our history. The World Trade Center would
probably still be standing. We would have avoided two Gulf Wars. We would be a
prosperous nation. We wouldn’t be bound down in this Mesopotamian quagmire that
has destroyed our reputation and destroyed the reputation of democracy across
the globe."


This is crazy. I harshly question the logic that is being put forward by this argument. I think that if the gas mileage was lowered, or is lowered, it will increase the distance that people drive. This means that the usage of gas would not be drastically lowered, or kept low in a meaningful way. The logic is also based on the idea that if we were not involved in the region for oil reasons, they would not attack us, which I don't believe.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr is fascinated with the Butterfly Effect. He manages to NOT bring up this fascinating instance, when it concerns his Uncle Jack at the Bay of Pigs. The use of merely two destroyers in a three-hour bombardment would have resulted in Fidel fleeing to the Soviet Union in about two weeks. This would have cascaded into Ho Chi Minh's downfall 18 months later. Dissolution of the Soviet Union would have occurred two decades earlier - with unwarranted accolades to President Lyndon Johnson.
Several proxy wars and innumerable deaths would have not occurred (imagine... no killing fields, etc.) Two high-profile assassinations would not have happened in the U.S. After communist China dissolved, Taiwan elements would have been less successful than the Hong Kong institutions in the Chinese changes - - consequently the business interests of Japan and the United States would have experienced enormous angst - - to the benefit of the entire world.
Uncle Jack blew it .... big time, as the humanities-oriented-B.S.-expression goes ... and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr knows it! C,mon Robert, fess up to the greater butterfly effect flub.

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