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Electric Rex on October 5, 2007 - 12:04am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

bmcnett,

You hit the nail on the head. In the U.S. I can already visualize Ann Coulter on CNN blaming liberals because they won't open (fill in your fav. govt. owned land.) Then Al Gore will publish another documentary and demonize every compnay that has anything to do with oil. That will be the discourse in the media. Meanwhile Jeffery Brown and Matt Simmons will just sit and wait for an interview that will never come.

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Valuethinker on October 5, 2007 - 9:00am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

When did Al Gore demonise big oil?

He has demonised the parts of Big Oil that have sought to actively undermine the entire science of global warming, through aggressive lobbying (Exxon). And Big Coal has done an even more aggressive job lobbying the Bush Administration, and entirely successfully.

This wasn't demonisation. It was facts. Well documented facts regarding the lobbying activities of (some) of these companies.

Read Jeremy Leggett's 'The Carbon Wars' for a sense of what big fossil fuel producers got up to in the 90s.

But your dichotomy between left and right is false. Al Gore is no Anne Coulter, who is quite prepared to call her opponents 'traitors' and 'fags'.

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