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I understand that, in the early 1900"s, Tesla had a plan to transmit energy wirelessly. His backers shut the project down, because they could not work out how to install the meters.

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OPEC was organized along the lines of the Texas Railroad Commission. That state body regulates oil and gas because it moves through pipelines. When the oil countries decided to form a monopoly that was their blueprint.

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I'll believe in clean coal just about when I become convinced cutting taxes raises government revenues.

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The Inquisition still exists; it's just called the "Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith" or something like that now. Funnily enough, Nazi Pope was in charge of it before becoming Pope.

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<i>"Texas Commission on Environmental Quality"</i>

(That's a phrase I never thought I'd see.)

I wonder what projects they've rejected. Perhaps that Ft Worth puppy-to-steam plant because of noise concerns. Maybe the canal filled with baby tears due to land-use objections from the porn shops along the route. They must have denied the Dubya Bush Library permit over the stench his presidential papers would pump into the air.

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Those trees died out of jealousy, what with coal being so "clean" nowadays, while trees are, as Ronald Reagan said, the #1 source of air pollution. Really, Texas is better off without them.

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