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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: puborectalis who wrote (37876)	8/4/2008 10:31:00 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 224756

...GOP presidential candidate John McCain’s ambitious plan to build 45 new nuclear reactors by 2030 as a means to combat global warming and add juice to the power grid is a policy ripped from the Bush administration’s failed National Energy Policy, first introduced by Vice President Dick Cheney during the height of the California energy crisis seven years ago. "Any realistic, independent oil expert will tell you that there is not enough American oil to affect the price of at the bump. Oil is a world wide traded commodity. Its price is set by supply and demand. In order for American drilling to affect the price at the pump, we would have to produce enough oil to effect the long term, overall, aggregate world supply of oil to such a degree as to effect the price commodity speculators are willing to invest. Folk we plainly don’t have that much oil and any reasonable professional will tell you that. ASK T. BOONE PICKENS!"