The leaders of the top environmental groups in the country, the Republican Governor of Nebraska, and millions of people around the country -- including hundreds of people who have bravely participated in civil disobedience at the White House -- all agree on one thing: President Obama should block a planned pipeline from the tar sands of Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico.
The tar sands are the dirtiest source of fuel on the planet. As I wrote in Our Choice two years ago, gasoline made from the tar sands gives a Toyota Prius the same impact on climate as a Hummer using gasoline made from oil. This pipeline would be an enormous mistake. The answer to our climate, energy and economic challenges does not lie in burning more dirty fossil fuels -- instead, we must continue to press for much more rapid development of renewable energy and energy efficient technologies and cuts in the pollution that causes global warming.
Cross-posted from Al's Journal.
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I would rather we subsitute the tar sand oil from Canada with our own nat gas. Let's have trucks and buses run on USA nat gas. Maybe one day they can run on renewables but let us at least use nat gas as a bridge. Compromise a bit.
Who do I like? How about Gavin Newsome, California Attorney General?
Look at Fukushima! The Japanese are still in denial about it.
http://fairewinds.com/
Big Oil owns the US government because Americans are S-T-U-P-I-D !
Look there is nothing you or anyone else can do. Much of the Future misery that Americans are going to endure whether they like it or not is already, ahem, "in the pipe."
The plan is to control demand for Oil in America by controlling the level of unemployment, the unemployed have no money to buy gasoline with, you see?
Oil Prices and consequently Gasoline prices aren't going to go down (not ever), sure there will be ups and downs but the overall trend since the late 1990s have been UP. Over the next 16 - 18 months prices should double so this will further depress the US economy to the point where it becomes obvious that all this talk of "recovery" is just that "talk"
Obama, like the rest of the World is a prisoner to the Oil lobby, there is no doubt that Americans being the indoctrinated sheep that they are will never do anything about it, so sit back and enjoy the show!
Its gonna be a dooooooooozy!!!
Already, toxic tailings ponds are covering 170 square kilometres.
The ponds are leaking over 11 million litres a day of contaminated water into the environment.
The residents of a town downstream from the Canadian tar sands mines have seen a 30% increase in cancer.
The study found 47 individuals in the community had 51 different cancers over the 1995 to 2006 study period, more that the 39 cases health officials had expected to find.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/02/06/us-health-oilsands-idUSTRE51568020090206
51 cases instead of 39, it's a 30% increase.
Why don't you join the Protesters in DC? Then maybe the TV media will stop their virtual blackout of the issue.
Technology from a strong co2 based economy is the answer.
Furthermore there seems to be a widespread mistake propagated about exactly how much worse tar sands oil is compared to conventional oil. Al Gore (of all people) should not be ignoring the carbon dioxide emissions that are common to both types of oil at point of use. On that basis, the difference in overall CO2 emissions is around 20%. I find it hard to believe that the difference in emissions between a Prius and a Hummer is that small.
Al is a clueless ideologue....
Fanned
There is no way to stop the growth of the BRIC countries. Even if the US stopped burning all fossil fuels we wouldn't pull back from the tipping point.
The fight to control carbon emissions was lost with the election of GWB. Now we can only deal with the consequences. The best way to be prepared to deal with those consequences is to have cash on hand. Therefore the cheapest energy is the best energy.
http://alternativefuels.about.com/od/biodiesel/a/collectingwvo.htm