What we lack is the national political will to create the proper incentives to foster such efforts on a sufficient scale to drive costs down to economic feasibility.

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Opponents point out that unlike areas in other countries, mass transit is only economic viable in areas with sufficient density and that on a large scale, massive public transit programs have no chance of becoming self-sufficient.

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Algae at least can be grown, with sufficient engineering, on a large scale that does not require prime crop land in competition with growing food crops (as rules out conventional biofuel strategies beyond grants from governments and the European Union), and there is no demand for freshwater since saline water does even better to promote the growth of certain highly oil-yielding strains.

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Maintaining a force structure sufficient to engage in large-scale, high-intensity combined arms campaigns and the advanced or specialized assets required to assure access to critical domains is essential to deterrence of conflict, much less war waging.

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This is beneficial in guarding against a full-scale banking crisis, but it is not sufficient to secure levels of new bank lending to productive customers that is necessary given the European slump.

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Nunn and Warner to the effect that a veto threat is not sufficient to ensure congressional support for large-scale, multi-year development and procurement programs.

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As a result, gas industry projects in Texas had to scale back, as energy producers scrambled to find sufficient water.

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