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To: steve harris who wrote (309061)	11/5/2006 7:43:41 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574004

Al Gore is the only politician I know of in the US that is doing anything at all. He has driven a huge awareness campaign, including a fairly popular movie called the "Inconvenient Truth". I know Republicans have a deepseated dislike of Clinton and Gore. I have some left-over dislike as well. However, if you can put that aside for a second and forget about all of the other liberal agenda items around gay-marriage and making this an atheist country, then you have to admit that the Democrats have always been the party that believes in doing something about the environment. The Republicans have always been for raping and pillaging the environment for capital gain. Now to me, improving the environment is certainly an excellent goal, because it is clear we are destroying the Earth. However, much more important to me in the short term is rendering terrorists and Middle East authoritarians toothless. Oil independence will do that for us. So oil independence means: * elminating the bulk of funding for Islamic terrorists * boosting our economy by reducing the outpouring of cash for oil and getting patents for a host of new technologies for cars that don't use oil * cleaning up the environment by reducing the greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks Seems like a major no-brainer to me. Why don't the Republicans see that? Give me just ONE Republican candidate that has made this issue his central platform. You can't do it, can you? If you could, then you might convince me to vote Republican again.