AL GORE: Tar Sands - The Dirtiest Fuel on the Planet

[kpete]

The leaders of the top environmental groups in the country, the Republican Governor of Nebraska, and millions of people around the country -- including hundreds of people who have bravely participated in civil disobedience at the White House -- all agree on one thing: President Obama should block a planned pipeline from the tar sands of Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico.

The tar sands are the dirtiest source of fuel on the planet. As I wrote in Our Choice two years ago, gasoline made from the tar sands gives a Toyota Prius the same impact on climate as a Hummer using gasoline made from oil. This pipeline would be an enormous mistake. The answer to our climate, energy and economic challenges does not lie in burning more dirty fossil fuels -- instead, we must continue to press for much more rapid development of renewable energy and energy efficient technologies and cuts in the pollution that causes global warming.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-gore/the-dirtiest-fuel-on-the-_b_944186.html
http://blog.algore.com/2011/08/the_dirtiest_fuel_on_the_plane.html

[ZombieHorde]

1. Whatever. I don't care if you hate Gore, but he is not the dirtiest fuel on the planet.

Just kidding.

The pipeline sounds like a terrible idea. I am glad so many are speaking out against it.

[Major Hogwash]

2. Still waiting for my flying car.

So, I guess we'll have to settle for one that runs on sand!

[NightWatcher]

3. When will other people join me in calling for direct action to prevent

the first drop from ever flowing through the damned thing.

The only thing the corporations understand is money. We need to make them spend more money building and maintaining the thing than they planned, and in turn make it no longer worth their while to build it.

[Pigheaded]

4. Al Gore

has proved himself a greedy hypocrite to me.
I will never believe anything he says.

PH

[dionysus]

5. bless your little heart.

[rhett o rick]

7. LOL. Sorry, but the corporations wont spend their money on the pipeline. They will get the taxpayers

to fund it. Mark my words.

[slay]

6. He's right

i soooo wish we had an actual progressive president right now. :(