Thursday, April 21, 2011

About My Support for Natural Gas

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/opinion/16nocera.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=nocera&st=cse
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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:27 AM
Subject: re About My Support for Natural Gas
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:
  The world is indebted to Joe Nocera for his innovations in
rhetoric. He finds that he can dismiss professor Howarth out of hand
merely because Howarth has reached conclusions about the use of
natural gas that differ from Joe's.  This Nocera method cuts a world
of Gordian knots.  Palestinians don't need to talk to Israelis; once
they've ascertained that they're Zionists, the conversation is over!
Likewise, once Joe dismissed the environmental damage from gas
drilling as an externality, I can spare myself reading any more of his
crap.
Barry Haskell Levine

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