Try reading the Wyoming oil land article and you may think differently when you learn the drillers don't need your invitation and you have no rights on the minerals below your land!

"I can plant a Victory garden, why not build a victory windmill?" Pahcheemoo nyet/Porquoi non/Why not? Others are making their own, you could, too! They don't call it that but YOU could and start a fad!

hey captsquid good to see you back on the Nashville board.

You wrote, "Let other countries "mandate"; free market should rule." Since graduating as an economist in 1971, I tended to agree with Friedman and the Chicago school until recently. I'm not sure airline deregulation worked to the advantage of the passengers, the employees or the stockholders, are you? My tenure in banking made me skeptical of the wisdom of the unfettered marketplace about ten years ago. Then what happened? I'm willing to reconsider my opinion when I get new information; how about you?

Great comment. "What a delima. Do nothing and argue amongst themselves or move forward and recover the nation's economy." It also sounds eerily familiar, like something our North American governments should do more of..

LET'S BE BUDDIES