What the fuck is Obama doing? He better defend this shit v. offshore drilling

Posted by bruni on August 29, 2008

Obama Opens the Door to Offshore Drilling

By Jonathan Weisman
ORLANDO, Fla. — Sen. Barack Obama suggested he could accept an expansion of offshore oil drilling today if it is in a broader package of energy measures that would free the logjam on energy bills in Congress.
"My interest is in making sure we’ve got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices," Obama said in an interview with The Palm Beach Post.
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To the conservatives & pro-oil republicans:

Posted by bruni on August 28, 2008

Why is it that you love oil so much and want to push so hard to bring in more oil? I don’t see you pushing for alternative energy research and merely state "nuclear is the answer" when it’s plainly clear that it isn’t. So what are you planning on doing when you’ve been pushing oil so hard and it turns out that we won’t have a drop of oil for 10-15 years?
If we’d stop subsidizing damn corn and ethanol so much, maybe alternative energy would move a little faster. Then food prices would start going down and the price of a pizza will be back to normal
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I’d like to understand the logic of the typical Global Warming denier

Posted by bruni on August 21, 2008

This is how I look at it;

1. The Earth is a closed system
2. Oil is a finite resource
3. In the last 40 years the Earth’s population has doubled from 3 billion to over 6 billion.

Now you could go on and on about how much human activity is influencing the world climate, but I just don’t understand how someone can look at this picture and think that it will have no effect on anything. You may think that the only thing that matters in the world is the economy, but the economy is just a subsystem of the larger system it inhabits… the ecosystem.
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