I don't think it's evil. I just think we'd be better off trying a different solution, global-warming-wise.
I was watching a CNN documentary on global warming, and they said that Brazil will very quickly be energy self-sufficient. They pump some oil, but they also use a great deal of ethanol in their cars, and all cars made there now are flex-fuel. During the oil crisis of the '70s, the military gov't in power said, "We're going all out for ethanol, and that's that." Tyrannical bastards? Sure, but it was the right decision for Brazil, and by the time they were thrown out, everybody else realized it.
I don't claim that ethanol's the total answer, but what Brazil took 20-odd years to do, I'll bet we could do in a lot less. With some real leadership. Any enlightened dictators wandering around? (I said _enlightened_ :-) ).
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