RE: Greenpeace et al.

["Scott Siebert" <SIEBSR@DOE-MD.GOV>]

The actual quote is...

"Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun."  -  Paul Ehrlich, Stanford Biologist, in 1976 as quoted in the June 2001 edition of the Limbaugh Letter.



So, good job Ted, the approx. quote was pretty damn (oops, darn) close!!



Scott R. Siebert

Internal Dosimetry

BWXTO Mound



>>> "Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)" <jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov> 06/20/01 08:34AM >>>

I would be careful about circulating statements based on what you think

people said.  That leaves you open to charges of falsification and libel.

You could also look like a fool if you are proven wrong.



-- John 



John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

3050 Traymore Lane

Bowie, MD  20715-2024



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-----Original Message-----

From: Ted Rockwell [mailto:tedrock@CPCUG.ORG] 

Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 8:33 PM

To: Jerry Cohen; Franta, Jaroslav; Radsafe (E-mail)

Subject: RE:Greenpeace et al.





> Is it possible that what Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, etc, are 

really opposed to is the generation of abundant, cheap, electrical energy?



Certainly!  I have a whole page of quotes I could dig up if necessary, from

Amory Lovins: "Giving the American people cheap, abundant, clean energy

would be like giving a machine-gun to an idiot child" (approx quote from

memory).



Elliott Richardson: To the effect that providing lots of good energy is

fundamentally a bad idea because of the life-style it would allow us to

follow.



Etc.  Etc.



Did you doubt it?



Ted Rockwell

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