An Inconvenient Truth

[kandrathe]

What is ironic is that even with slightly reduced demand, the gross rise in gas prices will continue to fund / finance exploitive development to meet demand in places other than where sincere efforts are being made to regulate carbon emissions and environmental impacts. This will enable a whole new swarm of carbon emissions to blossom where none existed before, all the while funding the resurgent communist movement in South America and Islamist agendas.

The drug addiction has sucked money out of the American economy into the hands of criminals, and the oil addiction sucks it out of our wallets and into the hands of our enemies. (Still consider Canada a friend, for the record. ;) )

If that isn't "hoist in history's petard" I am not sure what is.

All preventable by a policy not taken by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan in succession: more nukes, ignore the hysterics. Oh, wait, that brings us back to the original post's opening GAG: Green Al Gore. :whistling:

Occhi

16.75% Canada
13.10% Mexico
11.94% Saudi Arabia
10.43% Venezuela
8.22% Nigeria

With the exception of the top two, our major oil import buddies are pretty shaky. You are right, we are giving them the power they will be using in a short time to make the world more miserable in their regions. Hugo Chavez is shaping up to be another regional trouble maker.