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Gore compares offshore drilling to invasion of Iraq
The Politico ^

Posted on 07/19/2008 1:07:39 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Gore compares offshore drilling to invasion of Iraq

In a surprise appearance at Netroots Nation — which apparently was the worst-kept secret in Austin, Texas — former Vice President Al Gore followed up a speech by Nancy Pelosi by laying out a narrative on climate change and the energy crisis that seems ready-made for the Obama campaign to download.

“If you look at the seriousness of the climate crisis, you see how it ties to the economic crisis and the national security threat that we face,” he said. “200 billion dollars are being sent overseas just from oil.”

“The idea that we can drill our way out of this is just so absurd,” he said, comparing the push for offshore oil drilling — which has gained popularity and put environmentalists on the defense — to dealing with a hangover by having another drink.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: algore; drilling; energy; environment; gasprices; iraq; kook; manbearpig; manbearpigawareness; offshoredrilling; oil
In his own words.........
1 posted on 07/19/2008 1:07:40 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver
Gore compares offshore drilling to invasion of Iraq

I agree. They're both good ideas.

2 posted on 07/19/2008 1:08:42 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle

AlGore ... a man who never lied! A man who knows the truth! A man who can win an election based on his truths!


3 posted on 07/19/2008 1:11:00 PM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: Sub-Driver
They're coming to take me away, HA HA
They're coming to take me away, HO HO HEE HEE HA HA
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see
Those nice, young men
In their clean, white coats
And they're coming to take me away, Ha-haaa!
4 posted on 07/19/2008 1:11:21 PM PDT by mc5cents (Show me just what Mohammd brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman)
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To: Sub-Driver

This retard never shuts up.


5 posted on 07/19/2008 1:12:05 PM PDT by RWB Patriot
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To: Sub-Driver

Translation: My Global Scamming is heading in the toilet and costing me $Billion$.

Pray for W and Our Troops


6 posted on 07/19/2008 1:12:37 PM PDT by bray (Drill Congress!!)
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To: mc5cents

He is such a loon!


7 posted on 07/19/2008 1:12:47 PM PDT by benjamin032
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To: Sub-Driver

No one is saying that we’re going to drill our way out of the energy situation. It’s just one leg of the stool. It’s the leg that the democraps are trying to kick out from under us.


8 posted on 07/19/2008 1:13:55 PM PDT by Need4Truth
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To: Sub-Driver

P.T. Barnum had nothing on this guy.


9 posted on 07/19/2008 1:14:11 PM PDT by Crawdad (If you're in a fair fight, your tactics suck.)
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To: Sub-Driver

This is a severe case of a guy who got lucky and got his 15 minutes but is trying to stretch it out to 30 minutes. Someone...anyone...please get the hook.


10 posted on 07/19/2008 1:14:32 PM PDT by econjack (Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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To: Cementjungle
offshore drilling ... invasion of Iraq

I agree. One down, one to go.
11 posted on 07/19/2008 1:15:39 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: Sub-Driver

Algore the Hutt is a perfect example of why, once a pollitician is out of office, they should be thrown in jail or “put to sleep.” They are no longer useful human beings.


12 posted on 07/19/2008 1:15:42 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The U.S. Constitution was not written to protect those who want to destroy America.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Who lets this man walk the streets?


13 posted on 07/19/2008 1:15:44 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (IF YOU ARE NOT CONSERVATIVE BY 35 YOU HAVE NO BRAIN. W CHURCHILL)
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To: Sub-Driver

These guys are deadly serious. They fully intend to remake this country into a leftist police state and use this climate change BS to do it. They do mean business, my friends.

They will continue to get richer and more powerful, while impoverishing and enslaving the nation.


14 posted on 07/19/2008 1:16:39 PM PDT by San Jacinto
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To: Sub-Driver

>>>>>comparing the push for offshore oil drilling ... to dealing with a hangover by having another drink.<<<<<

“Petroleum is making us sick.”


15 posted on 07/19/2008 1:16:57 PM PDT by angkor (Conservatism is not now and never has been a religious movement.)
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To: Sub-Driver
bumper-sticker
 
 

Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.

U. S. Senate

U. S. House of Representatives

16 posted on 07/19/2008 1:17:12 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: bray
Photobucket

17 posted on 07/19/2008 1:17:45 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: Sub-Driver

What does that even mean?
Who in their right mind talks like that?
Who even cares what Comrade Gore says about anything.


18 posted on 07/19/2008 1:17:54 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Got Freedom ? Thank a Veteran...... Want to keep Freedom? Don't vote Obama)
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To: Sub-Driver

What an ultramaroon.


19 posted on 07/19/2008 1:19:02 PM PDT by LiberConservative ("Typical" white guy)
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To: Sub-Driver
“The idea that we can drill our way out of this is just so absurd,” he said

That statement is confirmation how liberalism is a mental disease.
20 posted on 07/19/2008 1:19:29 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: ronnie raygun
I just think of the earth rushing through its' orbit at 67,000 miles per hour....and wait for some idiot scientist to tell me that it is going to fast and we should slow it down....according to his model.

Scientists have yet to define the past...so all these climate models of the future are a lot of cr**.

21 posted on 07/19/2008 1:19:43 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: San Jacinto

>>>>>They fully intend to remake this country into a leftist police state and use this climate change BS to do it.<<<<<

Well there’s definitely an element of psychosis developing among the Rats. The stuff they’ve been saying lately borders on dementia.


22 posted on 07/19/2008 1:19:52 PM PDT by angkor (Conservatism is not now and never has been a religious movement.)
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To: Sub-Driver
The Left undermined our security and now, buoyed by success, are in the midst of a campaign to undermine our economy and independence.

How many on the right are complicit by providing social and familial support to Leftists today? That's how many on the right are part of the problem and will own the consequences as much as anyone on the left.


23 posted on 07/19/2008 1:19:54 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: Cementjungle

exactly what I was going to say. They are/were both necessary.


24 posted on 07/19/2008 1:20:12 PM PDT by johnwcassell (Author of seven novels on life in the American Cultural Revolution [1960's and 70's].)
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To: I see my hands
How many on the right are complicit by providing social and familial support to Leftists today? That's how many on the right are part of the problem and will own the consequences as much as anyone on the left.

Well said. I couldn't agree more.

25 posted on 07/19/2008 1:22:14 PM PDT by Wade827 (Job 21:3)
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To: Sub-Driver
Gore compares offshore drilling to invasion of Iraq

Did we really need to hear anything else? AlGore is a known dumb crap DemocRAT:-()

26 posted on 07/19/2008 1:24:09 PM PDT by geo40xyz (BE PREPARED: Rotate the ammo, food supplies, water, gas etc. Update the list:-() No new debt..)
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What an f*’n loonie.


27 posted on 07/19/2008 1:25:13 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE toll-free tip hotline 1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRget!!!)
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To: Sub-Driver
I can't help but think of Dr. Smith when I see or read about Al Gore...


28 posted on 07/19/2008 1:26:45 PM PDT by Coffee200am ("We should all be living in mud huts and riding bicycles to avoid killing the polar bears..."/s)
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To: angkor
The stuff they’ve been saying lately borders on dementia.

The '60s hippie generation is in power, but getting old, and desperate to finally foist its failed, antiquated 40-year-old agenda on the rest of us.

It's as if in 1950, after two world wars and endless scientific and social change and progress, there was a fanatical group of Americans feverishly trying to get everyone to go back to 1910.

Who knows, maybe there was such a group. But back in 1950 they would have done the right thing and locked 'em in the attic.

29 posted on 07/19/2008 1:30:16 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: Sub-Driver
“200 billion dollars are being sent overseas just from oil.”

OK, so let's drill for our own oil then!

“The idea that we can drill our way out of this is just so absurd,”

OK, so let's keep sending the billions to the mullahs then!

30 posted on 07/19/2008 1:31:24 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (BARACK OBAMA WILL SAVE US! HE HAS RISEN!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Calling Al Gore an idiot is an affront to imbeciles everywhere.


31 posted on 07/19/2008 1:31:29 PM PDT by xDGx
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To: RWB Patriot

32 posted on 07/19/2008 1:32:06 PM PDT by Mr_Moonlight
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To: San Jacinto
They will continue to get richer and more powerful, while impoverishing and enslaving the nation.

Anybody that doesn't believe this just has to find Barrak's response when asked the question about $4 gasoline.

Paraphrasing here but he said I'm OK with it just happened too fast.

33 posted on 07/19/2008 1:34:02 PM PDT by rocksblues (Folks we are in trouble, "Mark Levin" 03/26/08)
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To: JennysCool

Gore has a “repeat” problem...”Count every vote” is the grim reminder....


34 posted on 07/19/2008 1:35:18 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: Sub-Driver

Gore’s been in the sun a little too long.


35 posted on 07/19/2008 1:36:37 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Al Gore is an undocumented outpatient.


36 posted on 07/19/2008 1:42:10 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Sub-Driver

Usually people get smarter with age. In Al’s case its just the opposite.


37 posted on 07/19/2008 1:47:05 PM PDT by proudofthesouth (Homosexuality IS a choice! There isn't any biological reason for it. They CHOOSE to be that way!)
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To: Sub-Driver
“The idea that we can drill our way out of this is just so absurd,” he said, comparing the push for offshore oil drilling — which has gained popularity and put environmentalists on the defense — to dealing with a hangover by having another drink.

Seems to me like it's more like taking medicine to cure a headache, which is a normal thing to do for most people.

What Al would have us do instead is spend billions of dollars trying to develop a replacement medication that doesn't currently exist to cure the headache, when there's perfectly good medication that already exists that will do the job!

38 posted on 07/19/2008 1:47:32 PM PDT by vrwc1
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To: Sub-Driver

Quote “Can know one rid me of this low born Priest?”.


39 posted on 07/19/2008 1:55:59 PM PDT by calex59
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To: calex59

Oops Know=no post 39


40 posted on 07/19/2008 2:00:48 PM PDT by calex59
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To: Sub-Driver
This “crisis” has been created by Gore and Gore alone. Yes, he has had some help from a scientific community that, sadly, corrupts itself to obtain government funding that it knows would not be given if not for this “crisis”. Most have seen the BBC presentation on this scam; keep their points in mind to refute Gore and his stupid disciples.
The real shame is to see people, who know better, jumping on the Global Warming Train. In the end, they become co-conspiritors. DRILL NOW, DRILL OFTEN!
41 posted on 07/19/2008 2:09:35 PM PDT by BatGuano
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To: Sub-Driver
I think he was out peeing off his excess ice tea when this article was published.

No Smoking Hot Spot (The Australian)

Synopsis: No evidence whatsoever that any global warming has been caused by a greenhouse effect. CO2, man made or otherwise, can not have had any effect.

42 posted on 07/19/2008 2:10:57 PM PDT by TigersEye (Drill or get off the Hill. ... call Nancy Pelosi @ 202 - 225 - 0100)
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To: Sub-Driver

“Gore compares drilling to the hole in his head that lets the wind whistle through his ears”


43 posted on 07/19/2008 2:25:55 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Been here before)
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To: Sub-Driver
Hope he gets all the right interviews/the 'Leftist alphabets' and CNN along with Larry King. PUT IT OUT THERE AL!

America will love it! Think the majority of starting to get what it means to be Democrat today.

44 posted on 07/19/2008 2:37:26 PM PDT by cricket (Damn Political Correctness; before it irretrievably, damns us all. . .)
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To: Sub-Driver

Gore is a cretin. Whenever Al Gore speaks something is subtracted from the sum total of human knowledge.


45 posted on 07/19/2008 2:49:31 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Sub-Driver

A man may be silent and thought a fool,
or open his mouth and remove all doubt.

46 posted on 07/19/2008 3:33:13 PM PDT by RochesterFan
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To: Sub-Driver

Bozo is off his meds again and some were a village is missing its idiot.


47 posted on 07/19/2008 4:01:50 PM PDT by Rumplemeyer
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To: RochesterFan

48 posted on 07/19/2008 5:00:21 PM PDT by ThreePuttinDude () ......Pelosi + Reed = $ 4.00 per gallon......()
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To: Crawdad

I understand that snake oil saleman are ashamed of his BS.


49 posted on 07/19/2008 6:59:58 PM PDT by chiefqc
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To: Sub-Driver
“The idea that we can drill our way out of this is just so absurd,” he said,..

Not quite as absurd as your idea that we can blow our way out of this.

50 posted on 07/20/2008 6:00:31 AM PDT by justa-hairyape
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