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To: Elroy who wrote (324600)	2/4/2007 12:17:54 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576610

The oil industry cheats, pal. They are crooked. They already are deregulated. And what did they do their their freedom? They raised prices. Lied about supplies. Stonewalled regulators. Infiltrated the EPA and re-wrote climat change reports. Merged into a big fat monopoly, colluded on massive price gouging, eliminated all competition and sided with the far right chickenhawks going to war in the Middle East. They have also conspired to attack and plunder some of our most pristine wilderness areas, including Bristol Bay the most precious fishing area in the entire world. The Exxon Valdez spill is still polluting God's other great creation Prince William Sound even 20 years later. Countless salmon, sea birds, otters, eagles and other precious wildlife has been poisoned there. The entire ecosystem has been disrupted, and Exxon got away without paying most of the damages. Basically, you have an industry which acts as if it's above all laws. and maybe it is, with Bush-cheney-DElay making the rules. Now it's time to reverse all this, especially since we desperately need to get off oil as our primary fuel source in the next 20 years.

To: Elroy who wrote (324600)	2/4/2007 12:20:11 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576610

An oil executive I met admitted they gouge under Bush-Cheney. I will repeat this story. Last year I was at a high-powered cocktail party in Austin. I was flirting with two blondes and one of their husbands came u, drunk. He was an oil executive. I cagily asked him how his business has been since Bush-Cheney came into power. He said "now we can charge anything we want". Then he stopped himself and asked if I was a democratic. I said yes and he cringed, clammed up and refused to speak to me again, having already let the obvious open secret out of the bag. Bush-Cheney-DElay have been a big fat licence to gouge, steal, cheat and pollute.

To: Elroy who wrote (324600)	2/4/2007 12:54:57 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576610

"The best way to remove oil and politics is to completely deregulate the oil industry." Dump environmental regulations? Are you nuts? Do you know how bad things were around refineries before the EPA? I grew up in the middle of the largest petrochemical complex in the world. East Texas still refines a large chunk of the world's oil. Things are a lot better now that they can't release, flare off or dump into the rivers anything they don't want. There are fish in the rivers and you don't have to repaint every year or two because the acid rain eats the paint off the walls. Back in the early to mid-60s, if the humidity was high, the SO2 in the air, combining with the humidity to form sulfuric acid in concentrations high enough that it would eat pantyhose off of women who wore them. Respiratory diseases are down, as is whole classes of rare cancers. Dumping environmental regulations is a bad idea.