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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (127436)	6/28/2008 11:34:14 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Reagan killed Carter's clean energy program which would have had us off Arab oil 100% by 2000. You are such an incredibly stupid windbag, jabbering away on subjects about which you know zilch. Carter's government synfuels program was about creating liquid fuel from coal and oil shale, not exactly "clean". If you weren't such an insufferable idiot, you would ascertain a fact or two before spewing your brainless inanities and falsehoods. Read this, nitwit, and learn something... boulderweekly.com ...The Carter administration’s response to this was to launch a drive for U.S. energy independence — the centerpiece of which was to be the creation of an American synthetic fuels industry capable of producing 2 million barrels a day of crude oil equivalent from coal and oil shale (mostly from oil shale) by 1990. Carter signed the enabling legislation, the Energy Security Act of 1980, in July of that year. Among other things, it created a U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation with the authority to provide $22 billion in loan and price guarantees to synfuels projects. On the strength of this, a number of oil companies launched oil shale mega-projects in Colorado. Most involved mining shale, which averages about one barrel of oil per ton of rock by heating it in blast-furnace-sized retorts to sweat the oil out of the shale. To be sure, environmentalists were horrified...

To: American Spirit who wrote (127436)	6/29/2008 12:08:32 AM
From: Jane4IceCream	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

You are an idiot....will always be an idiot....until the idiot population is wiped off the face of the planet by the morons. Why dont you go celebrate Independence Day early and shove a fircracker up your @ss. Jane