Obama answers 18 Science Related Questions W/Nature McCain Decline Interview

Posted by bruni on October 18, 2008

Very interesting interview and LOL at McCain

US election: Questioning the candidates

Barack Obama accepted Nature’s invitation to answer 18 science-related questions in writing; John McCain’s campaign declined. Obama’s answers to many of the questions are printed here; answers to additional questions (on topics including biosecurity, the nuclear weapons laboratories and US participation in international projects) can be found at Wherever possible, Nature has noted what McCain has said at other times on these topics.
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Serious question: was Obama ever actually opposed to drilling?

Posted by bruni on August 25, 2008

That is, did he ever actually say it was really a bad thing? Everything I ever heard from him simply said it was a distraction and wouldn’t help our problems with foreign oil and gas prices. (Which he still says).

I might be wrong though, it’s not an issue I’ve followed closely.

Obama is pressed on the issue repeatedly on the campaign trail, but he refuses to budge, preferring to take pains to spell out his reasons.
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so we’re under $120/bbl for crude

Posted by bruni on August 20, 2008

Shit, I’m only paying 12 cents less than I was when it was at 140

Does the price of bread change every time grain prices move?

No, only when gas prices increasze.
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Iraq oil bonanza flows to tune of $80 billion

Posted by bruni on August 19, 2008

The oil boom will give Iraq a surplus of nearly $80 billion (42 billion) by the end of this year, a US agency has concluded, raising the political pressure for a cut in American spending to help the country to recover.

High oil prices will soon give the Iraqi Government a pot of $79 billion in unspent funds, the US’s Government Accountability Office (GAO) projects in a new report to Congress. It adds that nearly $10 billion has been sitting in a US bank in New York because the Iraqi Government has been so slow in spending funds on reconstruction.
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