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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.
Andrew Leonard

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  • Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:20 PM

    Well done, sir.

    Once again, Andrew Leonard drives home the case against further oil exploration and sounds the rallying cry for a sensible (i.e. clean and renewable) energy future. I campaign for Greenpeace and I talk to people all day long about these issues and I have found that most of the support for increased domestic oil production (or fossil fuel production in general) as well as support for such sources as nuclear power and 'clean' coal are born out of ignorance of the tangled realities of this loaded issue. Stay the course Andrew! Let's hope Obama follows...

    "Time makes more converts than reason" - Thomas Paine.

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