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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (210813)	6/11/2011 10:19:59 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362291

The anti global warming President Obama has pitched AGW issues over the side by approving massive extraction of coal while buying into the meme that gas prices are the problem. There is now serious talk about releasing significant amounts of oil from the SPR. He also bought into the meme that the deficit is the main problem. Every Republican wrong headed idea gets his attention and acquiescence in the quite possibly hopeless pursuit of reelection. Those of us in the cheap seats are supposed to believe that if he can just get reelected, then he will actually do the things he needs to do. But that is what we thought would happen when he got elected and got a Democratic majority. Boxer held hearings on AGW to great fanfare and then legislation was tossed into the trash heap like everything else. What is it about Hansen's warnings that Obama and our other politicos don't get? It's all about jobs, jobs,jobs. Obama's shining moment is the salvation of the so called U.S. auto industry. Ironic that. But I guess we are all supposed to be saved by $40,000 Volts. Peak oil represents the end or at least significant decline in what we like to call civilization. AGW represents the end of nature as McKibben pointed out decades ago. Clearly, the national conversation (I hate that word) needs to be changed but the conversation will continue to be about irrelevancies. tstreet on June 11, 2011 - 9:15am theoildrum.com