Do you really believe the oil companies want to find ways to keep the price
of oil down? My God you are naive.
"00ZNB" <00ZNB@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> May 14, 2008
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> http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/3071
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> There is a price for being an idiot. Think about that the next time you
> fill up your gas tank.
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>
>
> Americans have painted themselves into the corner on energy and the two
> presumptive candidates for President are ready to finish off the nation
> with the worst possible "solutions."
>
>
>
> Sen. Barrack Obama is talking of "windfall profits" taxes on the oil
> companies, thus threatening to take away the money they need to invest
in
> exploration, extraction, refining and delivery of the gas and oil we
need
> to fuel our cars and trucks, and heat our homes.
>
>
>
> It takes up to ten years between finding a new reserve of oil and
actually
> delivering it. It's been nearly four decades since any oil company has
> built a new refinery because the United States has made it too expensive
> to do so thanks to lawsuits and a maze of environmental laws. As for
> exploring for oil in the U.S. or off-shore, would you spend millions
doing
> that if you knew the government wouldn't let you drill or extract it?
>
>
>
> Like Sen. McCain, Sen. Obama believes in global warming even though the
> planet stopped its long, completely natural warming in 1998. The Earth
is
> cooling, but please don't let that get in the way of either candidate
> proposing "solutions" to address a drastic warming that is not
happening.
>
>
>
> Sen. John McCain says that global warming in undeniable even though
> literally hundreds of scientists worldwide say it isn't happening. In
> March I attended a conference on climate change sponsored by the
Heartland
> Institute. It attracted over 500 meteorologists, climatologists,
> economists, and other very smart people from around the world who sat
> through two days of presentations and seminars all jammed with
information
> confirming that there is no global warming, if you interpret this to
mean
> a massive rise in the temperature of the planet.
>
>
>
> Sen. McCain, however, is worried about "carbon fuel emissions" at a time
> when the cost of those carbon fuels, gasoline in particular, is going
> through the ceiling thanks, not to a lack of supply, but the speculators
> in the world's commodity exchanges.
>
>
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> It is moronic to worry about carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) when this
gas,
> vital to the growth of every piece of vegetation and all life on Earth,
> constitutes a mere 0.038% of the Earth's atmosphere.
>
>
>
> Look up at the sky above you. It's about 95% water vapor. You know,
water
> as in hydrogen and oxygen molecules. You drink it. You wash in it. You
> swim in it. There are large bodies of it called oceans. Those oceans
which
> normally retain and release 80-90% of the Earth's heat are now cooling!
>
>
>
> So neither one of the candidates has a grasp of economics or science and
> we are about to elect one of them the next President of the United
States
> of America!
>
>
>
> Meanwhile, The New York Times on May 11 published an editorial,
> "Rethinking Ethanol" in which the geniuses who write such things have
> concluded that maybe diverting food products like corn into a fuel
product
> that provides less mileage per gallon, costs more to produce than
> gasoline, and adds its own pollution to the air, is probably not a good
> idea. Their solution? End the tax subsidy that goes to ethanol
producers.
>
>
>
> According to The New York Times, "The other reason is a spate of studies
> suggesting that some biofuels-corn ethanol in particular-could
accelerate
> global warming." You have to be a special kind of idiot to (1) advocate
a
> Congressional mandate for billions of gallons of ethanol as a gasoline
> additive and (2) continue to maintain that global warming is occurring.
>
>
>
> The New York Times has been lying about global warming since the 1980s.
> The good news is that it is laying off large numbers of its reporters
and
> editors. Its circulation has been sinking like a stone and maybe someday
> it will be sold on street corners as a single broadsheet hawked by boys
> shivering in the snow while shouting, "Read all about it! No more global
> warming!"
>
>
>
> If you get the feeling that the United States is heading over the cliff
> for failing to anticipate and encourage its energy industries, for
> codifying in law requirements to deal with a non-existent problem, and
for
> refusing to reverse course, you're right.
>
>
>
> There is a price for being an idiot. Think about that the next time you
> fill up your gas tank.
> --
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>
> Warmest Regards
>
> Bonzo
>
>
> "Let me say it plainly: The environmental movement has been taken over
by
> anti-capitalist radicals who are using it to wage war against capitalism
> and campaign for liberal Democrats. Protecting the environment is now
> number three, or lower, on their list of priorities." Joe Bast,
President,
> Heartland Institute, One-time Ardent Environmentalist, Has seen it from
> both sides.
>
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