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And why can there be only two political parties in the United States? A few times we've had third party candidates, but it seems those votes were taken away from the Democrats, guaranteeing a win for the Republicans. Do Republicans sponsor those third parties?
I've never wanted to belong to either party, because it seemed to me that the differences within each party were more obvious than the difference between the two parties.
Recent history seems proof that a two party system does not work if one party rules all three branches of government.
And maybe the three branches are not really equal; one is more powerful than the others?
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Has anybody asked why, all of a sudden we must quickly invent a new fuel to replace gasoline? And our leader can only talk about ethanol. Surely, he too must know that it takes more energy to make ethanol than we get out of it-- and ethanol corrodes the small engines of lawn mowers and weed eaters we cannot do without. And here (our gas is now 15% ethanol) we have noticed that it reduces gas mileage by about 10%.
Overall the scientists say that the emissions from automobiles accounts for some 17% of the total monstrous amounts of carbon dioxide we poison the atmosphere with.
The warming of our atmosphere is the consequence not only of burning huge quantities of oil and coal to generate electricity, but also of deforestation, which is only slightly slowing down (we are running out of forests to eradicate). But we don't talk about that, probably because we know that it takes many hundreds of years to regrow a rain forest.
But then, using ethanol is not about global warming, but about our dependence on foreign oil. Two different things. Doing something about global warming we "seriously consider." But reducing our dependence on foreign oil is a priority.
Don't we have a say in these monstrously important issues? Important for the survival of our species I mean.
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