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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:00 AM

Gas prices and offshore drilling

Not much is at stake on Election Day 2008. Just the long-term health of the global economy and the future of the planet. That's what the offshore drilling debate is all about.

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  • Wednesday, June 18, 2008 09:08 PM

    future pf the planet

    The true debate here is not about oil spills, but the economy. The idea that the earth is warming is by no means proven. Radicals like Al Gore would have us believe that we are in the midst of a huge crisis. He should be pillaried as the fraud he is. As the price of food and energy go up, the hard won advances made against poverty are withering away. I believe that if this trend is not reversed, it will result in the deaths by starvation of up to half a billion people. Most of these will be Africans and Asians. Maybe this is what these enviromentallists want. Thats why I call global-warming alarmism the "new eugenics", and Al Gore a "purveyor of misery". Technology will advance beyond fossil fuels(sooner rather than later, I hope). The stone age didn't end because we ran out of rocks.

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