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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (254255)	6/13/2008 1:28:34 PM
From: KLP	of 793882

Climate Change and the Oil Crisis By Dan \| June 12, 2008 hingeoffate.com The oil crisis is a frequent topic on this blog, today I want to go into the major reason behind the crisis. The global warming myth is the primary reason that we are paying $4 a gallon for gasoline and soon will be paying as much as $6 or $7. If it were not for the fear of Global Warming Democrats in congress would not be refusing to open up America’s domestic oil reserves. We currently have up to a trillion barrels of oil that are off limit to exploration. Global warming alarmist have been fighting to prevent energy exploration since the mid the 70’s. They succeeded in preventing drilling in ANWR, which would not harm the caribou, and they have prevented exploration on the continental self outside of the gulf of Mexico. Now, when we need more energy urgently, the global warming alarmists have sold the Democrats on the idea that drilling for oil is not the solution. Instead, they want us to develop alternative energy sources. This is a noble idea and is something that we must do in the long-run but we are not going to run of oil in the near term. At current consumption rates we have over 100 years of usable oil left and much more that we do not have the technology to use at this point. Since there is plenty of oil out there the only reason for the current high prices is global warming alarmism. They contend that we are destroying the planet by fossil fuels. They claim that CO2 is a “greenhouse gas” and that our emission are going to cause a runaway greenhouse effect. In fact there is very little evidence that we are having an impact on global CO2 levels. CO2 has been on the rise for thousands of years and unless the global warming alarmists believe that ancient man’s campfires produced as much CO2 as our cars and power plants, we had nothing to do with it. There is also evidence that the CO2 levels rise as the temperature rises and go down as the temperature declines. There is evidence that the oceans act as a natural CO2 sink, releasing CO2 as the temperature rises and absorbing it as the temperature drops. No one argues that high CO2 levels are bad for plant life. In fact some global warming alarmists are using CO2 emissions as fertilizer to grow tomatoes and algae in an attempt to clean the atmosphere. In short, we are being sold a faulty bill of goods. Our country is held hostage by the OPEC nations because our leaders have bought into a hoax. They are refusing to let us explore for more energy, instead they want us to subsidize alternative energy sources that are not economically viable.

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