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Robert Zubrin
American
Scientist
Born:
1952
Could
Government
Needs
People
Will
World
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We need to drastically reduce the importance of the petroleum game itself by enacting flex-fuel-vehicle legislation that will open the transportation market to fuels derived from non-petroleum sources.
Robert Zubrin
Game
Will
Market
Drastically
Open
Importance
Reduce
Sources
Itself
Legislation
Fuels
Derived
Transportation
Petroleum
Need
Putting aside for the moment the question of whether human industrial CO2 emissions are having an effect on climate, it is quite clear that they are raising atmospheric CO2 levels. As a result, they are having a strong and markedly positive effect on plant growth worldwide. There is no doubt about this.
Robert Zubrin
Positive
Strong
Result
Plant
Doubt
Worldwide
No Doubt
Atmospheric
About
Having
Emissions
Clear
Putting
Industrial
Climate
Question
Effect
Quite
Human
Whether
Aside
CO2
Moment
Growth
Levels
Raising
It should be noted that the EPA's banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection.
Robert Zubrin
Environmental
Protection
Point
Point Of View
Absurd
Environmental Protection
Categorically
Banning
EPA
Noted
Should
View
The natural-gas industry is screaming for new markets, and there are only two sectors where these can be found: transportation and power generation.
Robert Zubrin
Generation
Power
Markets
Sectors
Only
New
Industry
Screaming
Where
Transportation
Found
Two
The EPA must be forbidden to seize or destroy the property of any person until and unless such person has been found guilty of a crime in a court of law.
Robert Zubrin
Property
Law
Crime
Unless
Guilty
Destroy
Has-Been
Must
Seize
Until
Forbidden
Court
Been
Person
Any
EPA
Found
Weather systems are natural heat engines, and like all other heat engines, both natural and artificial, they are driven not by temperature per se, but by differences in temperature between one location and another.
Robert Zubrin
Natural
Weather
Differences
Other
Location
Systems
Temperature
Per
Both
Driven
Between
Like
Another
Artificial
Heat
Engines
Carbon is the stuff of life, and it's the stuff of everything used by human society. All of our materials are made of carbon or of substances, such as steel or glass, which are produced through the utilization of carbon.
Robert Zubrin
Life
Made
Society
Our
Everything
Steel
Through
Glass
Stuff
Materials
Human
Substances
Which
Produced
Used
Human Society
Utilization
Carbon
Economic growth must be the central issue because it is only through growth that the devastating threat of national bankruptcy can be averted. Furthermore, it is only by reviving American economic growth that the West's global predominance can be sustained, and peace and freedom kept secure around the world.
Robert Zubrin
Freedom
Peace
World
National
Furthermore
Secure
Must
Threat
Only
Economic
Through
Economic Growth
Devastating
Global
Because
Around
Issue
West
American
Bankruptcy
Sustained
Central
Growth
Kept
Energy powers our economy, both literally and figuratively.
Robert Zubrin
Energy
Our
Both
Economy
Powers
Literally
Figuratively
Ireland never lacked the capacity to feed its people. During the entire 'great famine,' the island continued to produce massive amounts of beef and grain. The Irish just couldn't afford to buy any of it due to the enforcement of rack-renting, high taxation, and suppression of manufactures.
Robert Zubrin
Buy
Great
People
High
Entire
Never
Feed
Massive
Suppression
Island
Due
Beef
Continue
Ireland
Irish
Afford
Any
Just
Famine
Grain
Taxation
Capacity
Produce
Enforcement
Amount
Nothing could be more regressive than carbon taxes.
Robert Zubrin
Nothing
More
Could
Than
Taxes
Carbon
The issue comes down to this: The NSA metadata-collection program costs lots of money, and had funds not been expended on it, they could have been used to support other programs that might have been far more effective in saving American lives.
Robert Zubrin
Money
Down
Other
Programs
Saving
More
Costs
Could
Had
Support
Issue
Been
Lots
Effective
American
American Lives
Might
Far
Used
Lives
Funds
Program
The United States should give former NSA contractor Edward Snowden immunity from prosecution in exchange for congressional testimony.
Robert Zubrin
States
Immunity
Give
Exchange
Prosecution
Testimony
Edward
Contractor
Snowden
Former
Should
Congressional
United
United States
Snowden and NSA leaders should be brought together face-to-face for questioning in public by a congressional investigatory committee, with both parties allowed to make their points and to counter the assertions of the other. If Snowden is lying, it will come out. If the NSA is lying, it will come out.
Robert Zubrin
Together
Will
Other
Lying
Out
Brought
Face-To-Face
Both
Both Parties
Points
Allowed
Counter
Leaders
Come
Parties
Make
Questioning
Snowden
Committee
Public
Should
Congressional
I run a small company with 18 employees on its payroll.
Robert Zubrin
Employees
Run
Small
Payroll
Company
When the government mandates that everyone must buy a product, its sellers can, and will, increase its price, potentially without limit.
Robert Zubrin
Buy
Government
Will
Increase
Everyone
Must
Potentially
Price
Limit
Without
Sellers
Mandates
Product
Traditional Marxism attempted to argue against free enterprise by saying that capitalism causes poverty and that, therefore, socialism is necessary. That didn't work, because it was false.
Robert Zubrin
Work
Saying
Capitalism
Socialism
Free
Poverty
Enterprise
Free Enterprise
Argue
Marxism
Attempted
Because
Causes
Traditional
False
Against
Therefore
Necessary
Western environmentalists might value their independence, but their organizations are largely donor driven, and if he wanted to, Putin could have a lot to donate.
Robert Zubrin
Value
Independence
Could
Driven
He
Putin
Environmentalists
Lot
Western
Donate
Donor
Wanted
Might
Organizations
Largely
The problem with Russia is not corruption per se, or even Putin per se. Russian government is not corrupt because Vladimir Putin has absolute power. Russian government has been corrupt and will always be as long as anyone has absolute power.
Robert Zubrin
Government
Corruption
Problem
Will
Long
Power
Has-Been
Corrupt
Per
Russia
Russian
Absolute
Absolute Power
Putin
Because
Always
Been
Anyone
The Problem With
Even
The Yanukovych regime is a mafia, which regularly threatens, imprisons, murders, or disappears political opponents as well as those whose possessions it covets.
Robert Zubrin
Political
Those
Possessions
Mafia
Threatens
Disappears
Well
Opponents
Political Opponents
Which
Regime
Regularly
Whose
Putin is sometimes described as a revanchist, seeking to recreate the Soviet Union. That is a useful shorthand, but it is not really accurate.
Robert Zubrin
Sometimes
Seeking
Recreate
Putin
Accurate
Soviet
Soviet Union
Shorthand
Really
Useful
Union
Putin and many of his gang may have once been Communists, but they are not that today. Rather, they have embraced a new totalitarian political ideology known as 'Eurasianism.'
Robert Zubrin
Today
Political
Ideology
Once
Embraced
Totalitarian
Rather
Putin
New
Known
Been
His
Political Ideology
May
Communists
Gang
Many
The 20th century saw three great-power confrontations. Two of them turned into total war. We lucked out on the third. Do we really want to roll those dice again?
Robert Zubrin
War
Three
Saw
Those
Out
Total
Total War
Dice
Roll
Want
Again
Confrontation
Them
Century
Turned
Really
Two
Third
The federal government should end its policies of economic warfare against the United States and allow our nation to develop all its energy resources to the fullest, both for domestic use and for export.
Robert Zubrin
Government
Nation
Energy
Our
Resources
States
Both
Economic
Federal
Federal Government
Allow
Develop
Policies
Domestic
End
Against
Warfare
Should
Use
Export
Fullest
United
United States
The blockade against American natural-gas exports needs to be lifted, and the war on coal needs to be ended, so that, instead of being wasted to replace perfectly good coal-generated electricity, our natural-gas exports can be expanded even further.
Robert Zubrin
War
Good
Needs
Our
Further
Lifted
Instead
Perfectly
Replace
American
Ended
Being
Against
Coal
Electricity
Exports
Even
Wasted
Putin himself made his original fortune in the early 1990s, when he stole the funds that had been entrusted to him to buy food in Europe to relieve the starvation in Leningrad that occurred during the economic collapse following the fall of the Soviet Union.
Robert Zubrin
Buy
Food
Made
Fall
Starvation
Collapse
Relieve
Following
Economic
Entrusted
Had
He
Putin
Him
Himself
Occurred
Been
His
Stole
Soviet
Soviet Union
Fortune
Union
Europe
Original
Early
Early 1990s
Funds
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