Drew Parkhill of CBN News conducted a wide ranging (and long!) interview with me back in October and November. It's now been posted on the CBN News Y2k Page.

http://www.cbn.org/y2k/cowles.asp

-- Anonymous, January 05, 1999

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Rick, congratulations, it was a very fine interview! I found every section interesting, but one of the points you made under the interconnectedness heading was exquisite:

"The coal mines have to work. The oil tankers have to work. The pipelines that deliver oil have to work. You just keep peeling back the layers until you get to the point where the only part in that whole supply chain that possibly isn't impacted is dinosaurs dying and decomposing."

You drove home the point and gave me a good laugh at the same time. Wonderful!

-- Anonymous, January 06, 1999

The CBN site says that the article will be "pulled" at the end of this month (the interview is already a couple of months old).

Is this information up-to-date?

So much has happened in recent months...

-- Anonymous, January 06, 1999

anonymous,

Yes, I asked Rick a day before I posted the interview if he thougt it was still up to date, and he felt it was (I did cut one section that we both thought was obsolete). The reason I'm pulling the interview at the end of the month is because things do change in Y2K (for instance, NERC has a new report coming out next week, etc). It wouldn't be fair to Rick to leave the interview up indefinitely, etc.

The reason it took so long to get the thing posted in the first place was because the original interview(s) were 12,000 words long, and had to be cut down & translated, so to speak, from conversational English into readable English (normal procedure for an interview like this). It's not uncommon for such procedures to take much longer than I took. Believe me, I spent a lot of time on that interview in restaurants on a notebook PC . But I think it came out okay in the end...

DP

-- Anonymous, January 06, 1999