>>>And don't keep wasting helium. My physicist son keeps reminding me that it's a limited resource...
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>Especially when New Zealand has an abundance of another sort of gas that contributes to global warming and profitably could be foisted on Dragan:
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>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3005740.stm
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>You could not make this stuff up.

The Kyoto protocol is the scam of the century. Even better than papal indulgences, where you at least got a promisory note. Here, you only get to pay for something that's always been free, since the last six forevers at least.