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Oil drilling prompts Al Gore's first public split with President Obama
The Hill ^

Posted on 04/08/2010 12:22:44 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Oil drilling prompts Al Gore's first public split with President Obama By Russell Berman - 04/08/10 01:47 PM ET

President Barack Obama’s decision to allow expanded offshore oil drilling prompted the first public criticism of his administration from Al Gore’s environmental advocacy group, the Alliance for Climate Protection.

The organization, which the former vice president founded and chairs, put out a statement last week opposing the new policy.

The statement is significant because it marks Gore’s first break with Obama on his signature policy issue, nearly two years after Gore’s enthusiastic endorsement gave the Illinois senator a jolt of momentum following the divisive Democratic presidential primary.

Gore and the Alliance have appeared to avoid direct criticism of the president in the past when they’ve had disagreements, and have often cheered on the administration.

When Obama announced a plan to back construction of new nuclear power plants, another move denounced by environmental groups, Gore’s group remained silent.

On the oil drilling announcement, however, the Alliance made its opposition clear.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: algore; democrats; lockbox; obama; riskyscheme; runslikeagirl
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Uh huh....
1 posted on 04/08/2010 12:22:44 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Rope-A-Dope!


2 posted on 04/08/2010 12:23:17 PM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

“Good cop/Bad cop”


3 posted on 04/08/2010 12:23:46 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
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To: Sub-Driver

See, he’s not a socialist. Even the warmers don’t like him.


4 posted on 04/08/2010 12:24:06 PM PDT by throwback
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To: Sub-Driver

If a tree fell in the forest....


5 posted on 04/08/2010 12:24:06 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (Now can we forget about that old rum-runner Joe Kennedy and his progeny of philandering drunks?)
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To: Sub-Driver

AlGore is an attention prostitute.

[I’d have used a stronger word, but this is a family site.]


6 posted on 04/08/2010 12:25:25 PM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (SPEAK UP REPUBLICANS, WE CAN'T HEAR YOU YET! IMPEACH OBAMA!)
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To: Sub-Driver

So now we have a two piece man-bear-pig ?

So Obama bozo announces a no drilling policy and Algore says he is against it.

Kabuki dancing

Carbon taxes are coming now that the global warming hoax has sunk.


7 posted on 04/08/2010 12:26:15 PM PDT by Tarpon ( ...Rude crude socialist Obama depends on ignorance to force his will on people)
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To: Sub-Driver

It’s all BS ,,, all of it and Al knows this drilling will never happen . Environmentalists will have all this tied up in the courts for years .


8 posted on 04/08/2010 12:27:34 PM PDT by lionheart 247365 (-:{ GLEN BECK is 0bama's TRANSPARENCY CZAR }:-)
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama is conning everyone with his mythical drilling program.
AlGore believes in mythical global warming so it’s all so amusing. Both are playing to the cheap seats in their “constituencies”.

Got to keep that con job going, baby!


9 posted on 04/08/2010 12:28:15 PM PDT by dennisw (It all comes 'round again --Fairport)
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President Barack Obama’s decision to allow expanded offshore oil drilling prompted the first public criticism of his administration from Al Gore’s environmental advocacy group, the Alliance for Climate Protection.

I guess Gore did not get the memo.

10 posted on 04/08/2010 12:29:43 PM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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“Both are playing to the cheap seats in their “constituencies”.”

You gotta razzle dazzle them.


11 posted on 04/08/2010 12:30:05 PM PDT by hoe_cake
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To: Sub-Driver

As an aside ... it doesn’t matter how many wells are drilled, we don’t have the refining ability to handle it. There have been no new refineries built and it takes almost ten years to build one ...


12 posted on 04/08/2010 12:30:11 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If someone calls me a racist I'll just tell them you're just saying that because I'm white ....)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hey Al, Bambi doesn’t care about you anymore. He won.


13 posted on 04/08/2010 12:34:22 PM PDT by sarasota
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To: subterfuge

Watch Kabuki dancing ...


14 posted on 04/08/2010 12:38:06 PM PDT by Tarpon ( ...Rude crude socialist Obama depends on ignorance to force his will on people)
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To: Sub-Driver

Gore baby... sell your 500,000 shares of Occidental Petroleum stock and then we can talk...


15 posted on 04/08/2010 12:43:45 PM PDT by avacado
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To: Sub-Driver

Yo AlBORE ... EFf you .. and the POLAR BEAR you rode in on.


16 posted on 04/08/2010 12:45:31 PM PDT by gwilhelm56 (Obama ... Mein Kampf is NOT a Textbook!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

FUAG!

LLS


17 posted on 04/08/2010 12:51:19 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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To: Sub-Driver

OK now I have a question. While surfing around the channels I stopped at a show called “Killer Lakes”(see example:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlTGEPP6evo)

Another example:
In 1986, a tremendous explosion of CO2 from the lake Nyos, West of Cameroon, killed more than 1700 people and livestock up to 25 km away. The dissolved CO2 is seeping from springs beneath the lake and is trapped in deep water by the high hydrostatic pressure. If the CO2 saturation level is reached, bubbles appear and draw a rich mixture of gas and water up. An avalanche process is triggered which results in an explosive over-turn of the whole lake. Since 1990 a French team has carried out a series of tests in an attempt to release the gas slowly through vertical pipes …
So does this mean the French Scientists are really the ones spewing Co2 into the atmosphere?
.....................

So the earth is emitting tons of Co2 into the air. Why are the Envirowhacos blaming humans. Everything is back asswards.


18 posted on 04/08/2010 12:52:07 PM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: Sub-Driver

19 posted on 04/08/2010 12:53:05 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( FIRE STUPAK: LindaForCongress.com)
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To: Sub-Driver

20 posted on 04/08/2010 12:53:22 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( FIRE STUPAK: LindaForCongress.com)
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