Posted on 07/05/2006 11:54:01 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Klein slams Al Gore interview on oil sands
JIM MACDONALD
Canadian Press
EDMONTON Alberta Premier Ralph Klein has criticized former U.S. vice-president Al Gore for comments he made in a magazine interview in which he attacked the massive oil-sands industry in northern Alberta.
Mr. Gore told an interviewer in the latest issue of Rolling Stone that oil-sands processing is a huge waste of energy and creates an eyesore on the landscape of Western Canada.
For every barrel of oil they extract there, they have to use enough natural gas to heat a family's home for four days, Mr. Gore told the magazine.
And they have to tear up four tonnes of landscape, all for one barrel of oil. It is truly nuts. But you know, junkies find veins in their toes. It seems reasonable, to them, because they've lost sight of the rest of their lives.
Mr. Gore concluded that the United States must reduce its dependence on oil as the primary source of energy to save the planet from the devastating impact of global warming.
Mr. Klein, who was recently in Washington to promote the oil sands as a reliable source of energy for the United States, said Mr. Gore's views are simply not realistic.
I don't know what he proposes the world run on, maybe hot air, he told reporters on Tuesday. I don't listen to Al Gore in particular because he's a Democrat. And not only that, he's about as far left as you can go
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Of course "wind farms" and "solar array farms" make for beautiful landscape, eh mr. gore?
He's about as far left as you can go, and not fall of the planet..........
For every barrel of oil they extract there, they have to use enough natural gas to heat a family's home for four days, Mr. Gore told the magazine.
When does someone mention that this same barrel of oil would heat that family's home for a YEAR?
Who? Klein or Gore? Your comment in the title was ambiguous.
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This from the Tobacco Baron. He's cerifiable.
The only problem with this statement is that "the planet" doesn't give a crap about global warming.
If (and that's a big "if") there is any validity to Gloabal Warming then humankind will be the only ones devastated.
"The planet" will be doing just fine whether we are here or not.
Mr. Gore is exhibiting a strange kind of hubris by implying that mankind has the power to destroy a planet.
"creates an eyesore on the landscape"
Moreso than asking if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there... Can a landscape BE an eyesore if no one is there?
Eyesore means it offends the eyes. No eyes, no eyesore.
Soundwaves are still projected by a falling tree even if no HUMAN is around to hear it.
Do wild animals protest "eyesores"? Do they care?
That's our Al, bringing love, contentment and pseudo science wherever he goes. He is so pathetic, there is nothing he won't do for publicity.
This is the same Algore who took royalties from an open pit zink mine on his Tennessee farm ?
America has BEEN using oil. China and India are NEW to heavy oil usage. Why not persuade THEM to use something different? Do they have emmissions standards that equal or exceed those in the US?
Then tell Mr. Gore to STFU.
Small house you have there.
PING!
Don't overstate the case PD -- the 55 gallons of oil in a barrel may not heat for a year, but certainly a month is not unreasonable. Heck, even two weeks in a tough stretch of northeastern winter. You still end up with a net energy gain.
And the torn up landscape is a hoot. Once the heavy equipment goes away, an amazing thing happens to "torn up landscape". The plant fairies come in and put weeds, grasses, then bushes, and eventually trees in a process that I'm sure the Gorons out there would think of as the Gaia Goddess' magic.
To AlGore, F**k YOU!!!
Let him fuel his jet with solar power!!!
4 tons of landscape? thats only a few scoops with a large bucket.
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