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Originally Posted by seksi
Stopping the flow of oil from all sources isn't possible or reasonable, and I am not sure that it is anyone's goal.
It is however the goal of a lot of climate activists following Bill McKibben and that kook from NASA JPL, Hensen, to stop or slow the exploitation of the tarsands because it is the dirtiest and least efficient available form of fossil fuels, with massive contamination at the point of extraction in Canada, greater carbon emissions coming from its transport and processing.
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Yes, many people want to do away with oil and fossil fuels altogether.
Carbon emissions is the most ridiculous reason to oppose the oil sands. And I can't figure out why people are so opposed to extracting oil from the ground but have no complaints about gold, copper, iron, nickle, silver, aluminum, bauxite, uranium, etc., etc., etc.
People should think of the oil sands as the world's largest clean up operation. A shit ton of oil was spilled there and we are just cleaning up like people do with any oil spill.
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Originally Posted by Rochard
I'm tired of this "environmental" crap.
Here in California we've been working on this bullet train for years. It's going to connect Northern California with Southern California, and it's been tied up in court for fifteen years. This is such a no brainer it's not funny - do you want tens of thousands of gas guzzling cars running between Norcal and Socal daily, or a handful of environmentally friendly trains doing the same route?
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The trains may be environmentally friendly but building that high speed rail line is going to be a boondoggle of epic proportions and may be the final nail in the coffin of the economy of California. Good idea or not there is no money to pay for it.
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Originally Posted by **********
Then again, increased hurricane and typhoon strength is a part of global warming, which of course is due to man-made pollution.
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Wrong and wrong again. When are you going to stop repeating the same baseless claims that have been proven wrong over and over again?
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