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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 01:22 PM
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High Gas Prices are Al Gore’s ...Environmentalism Coming Home to Roost
Edited on Mon Aug-15-05 01:35 PM by SoCalDem
A trip down memory lane to see what the buzz was in 2K.. This from a right wing site.. Crap then...but what did our "oil-man" promis us?? Failed to deliver..like everything he's "promised"..or is that threatened

I would call his a FLIP-FLOPPER...of just a plain FLOP !!


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High Gas Prices are Al Gore’s Radical Environmentalism Coming Home to Roost
Gore’s Worked to Raise Gasoline Prices to Fight "Global Warming" For Ten Years
By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources (www.originalsources.com)
http://www.bannerofliberty.com/OS6-00MQC/6-22-2000.1.html
June 22, 2000

There is something positively obscene about Al Gore’s attack on George W. Bush in today’s Washington Post over the skyrocketing cost of gasoline. He said, to applause at a carpenters' union hall in Des Moines, Iowa, "It's time to put our feet on the brakes of what may well be big oil's price gouging." Prices at the pump in Iowa were about $1.75 a gallon for regular gas. In Wisconsin the prices have already shot past $2 a gallon.
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Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), speaking with reporters in a conference call arranged by Gore's campaign, today called on the FTC and Congress to subpoena major oil company executives to Washington for an explanation of why gas prices have climbed so high. Saying that Gore supports such a move, Harkin said: "You won't hear George Bush saying anything remotely close to that. . . . That's where he's getting all his money – from the oil companies, his friends."
Well, if George W. Bush has friends in the oil companies, that might just be a good reason to vote for him.
Perhaps he is the best qualified person to try to undo the decade of damage done to America’s ability to produce domestic oil caused by Al Gore and his support of the UN’s "sustainable development" policy that requires, in the words of Maurice Strong and Mikhail Gorbachev, co-authors of "The Earth Charter":

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To comment" mmostert@originalsources.com


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http://uspolitics.about.com/od/campaign2004/a/bush_promises_4.htm

Bush campaign promises 2000- present.. lots of oil related LIES..
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phantom power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 01:25 PM
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1. If Bush installed himself as dictator for life....
these rubes would still be blaming liberals, 30 years from now.
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noahmijo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 01:27 PM
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2. Yea it's got nothing to do with the fact that
Let's see we're at war which drives up oil prices (whether it's a bs war or not) we're competing with China for energy, and the biggest fact YOU refuse to drive a normal vehicle or use public transporation so demand for oil skyrockets and guess what? oil is an inelastic product which means you the sucker will pay for it REGARDLESS of its price.

Oh and did I forget to mention that the nation's most powerful oilmen sit at the vice pres and pres's seat.
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 01:28 PM
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3. What a bunch of clap-trap this Mary Mostert is trying to put across...
...to the American people. BushCo still blames Bill Clinton and Al Gore for all the failures of the policies which Bush has had in place for four and one half years. It's just plain bullshit!
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politicaholic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 01:30 PM
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4. Al Gore's fault?
I thought that the WH didn't control gas prices...at least that's what the radio kooks are saying.
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pstans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 01:34 PM
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5. This makes me so mad
Once again they are deflecting the blame for the failures of Bu$h onto someone else. Gore didn't do anything to make gas prices were they are at today. If Gore did anything it was to start the conversation about reducing our oil consumption.

To find the truth all you have to do is follow the money. Who benefits from the high gas prices? Who donates money to Bu$h's campaign? What nation is best friends with the Bu$h family?

In Farenheit 9/11 Moore said that the US people pay the president $400,000 a year and the Saudi's have given the Bu$h family millions of dollars over the years.
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GeorgeGist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 01:35 PM
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6. Then ExxonMobil et al should be thanking Al Gore
for their obscene profits.
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Toucano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 01:36 PM
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7. That's absolutely hilarious!
Funniest thing I've seen in weeks. :rofl:
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 01:36 PM
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8. PLEASE note the DATE.. it's from 2K..just found it interesting
how crazy the arguments were back then, and eager to have those days back, most of us would be NOW.
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AlGore-08.com Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 01:49 PM
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9. You also have to remember Smirk was claiming as Prez he could simply
"Jawbone" with the Saudis and get the gas prices lowered to a reasonable level. So here we are, five years later, and "reasonable" out here in SoCal appears to be $2.739 a gallon.

Fuzzy f*ckin' math alright...
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 01:53 PM
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10. The jawbone of an ASS
to be sure:)
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 01:55 PM
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11. So is it still a good reason?
Down the road gas is $2.40 and on another road the gas is $2.50. And remember what Cheney said about high gas prices.
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