I 'll say this too -

[Joe for Clark]

I know there was one thing being looked at seriously in 1979 and 1980 - that they thought the steel mills along the rivers near Pittsburg - they were workable. They were likely to be able to get them cheap. That the facilities were good - easy to retool. They wouldn't be moving iron ore thru the docks - but oil shale - to to the facility. And they could handle heat. Cause that is what you have to be able to do - coke the shale at 350 degrees.

After that 79 embargo - they had good contingency plans.

Joe

[razors edge]

1. But the petro dollar solved the problem.

What exactly did Kissinger give the Saudis to get that OPEC capitulation.

Cash, weapons, promises of continued life without massive radiation poisoning?

Someone has either found that idea of processing not worth the effort, or the American people not worth it, as all these plants are now rust piles polluting the Ohio river.

[Joe for Clark]

2. That is right - shit you not.

Everything you say is certainly true - we got sold down the river.

Kissenger makes me sick - he ever sign a paycheck?? Does he even know where the Ohio River is??

I know what our people can do - and I am so sick of lawyers making decision that they have no idea the consequences.

He never believed in us. He never did.

Our people are so much greater. And I have had it with elitist bastards making decisions that doom so many of our people. I have had it.

It is a fact - it was not always so. One time - at least oil companies - they knew how good the workers really are on the river - and they had no problem going with them, then they got replaced with f-ing lawyers.

THEY ARE NOT US!!! They never will be.


Joe