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‘No such thing as ethical oil,’ Al Gore tells Toronto audience
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Posted on 05/08/2013 7:10:57 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

‘No such thing as ethical oil,’ Al Gore tells Toronto audience

IVAN SEMENIUK

The Globe and Mail

Published Tuesday, May. 07 2013, 10:44 PM EDT

Last updated Wednesday, May. 08 2013, 7:41 AM EDT

Declaring that “American democracy has been hacked,” former U.S. vice-president Al Gore told a Toronto audience that his countrymen needed to wake up to the special interests that have a grip on the levers of power in the U.S. Congress and are able to block legislation on a range of policy issues including his signature cause, global climate change.

Mr. Gore added that he felt action on climate change was possible, indeed inevitable, once it was viewed by enough people as a matter of personal values. “When these kind of issues settle into a choice between right and wrong, then the moral clarity that eventually develops makes it possible to move quickly.”

In a public interview with The Globe and Mail’s editor-in-chief, John Stackhouse, Mr. Gore also spoke of his wish that U.S. president Barack Obama would cancel the Keystone XL pipeline intended to transport heavy crude from the Alberta oil sands to U.S. refineries. In part because oil-sands crude requires more energy to extract than conventional sources, and so produces more greenhouse gases per barrel, he suggested that the full social and environmental cost of developing the oil sands made it a more expensive proposition than a faster move by the U.S. to renewable sources.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: algore; energy; envirowhackos; oil
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Oil in his head.........
1 posted on 05/08/2013 7:10:57 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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2 posted on 05/08/2013 7:12:24 AM PDT by tx_eggman (Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
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Another abortion which should have occurred.

Gore defines the low IQ point of sustainable life.

And - as such - was ideal for being a senator ...which is the lowest slime of the lowest level of the lowest sewer in the multiverse.


3 posted on 05/08/2013 7:12:38 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Sub-Driver

Ethical & Al Gore do not belong in the same story, let alone headline.


4 posted on 05/08/2013 7:13:52 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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***...including his signature cause, global climate change.***

Really? I thought his ‘signature’ cause was global warming. I know that because his ‘signature’ video says that in “An Inconvenient Truth”.

Ain’t that right Al?


5 posted on 05/08/2013 7:14:12 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Keep your eyes on Jesus. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Pronounced “Ethical Al”


6 posted on 05/08/2013 7:14:36 AM PDT by bigbob
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...to the special interests that have a grip on the levers of power in the U.S....

Hey bloated Al Bore, you are one of the biggest special interests to ever have an office in the cess pool of government - WASHINGTON, DC.
7 posted on 05/08/2013 7:14:43 AM PDT by leprechaun9
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To: Sub-Driver

I believe that Algore has (had) an oil well on his property in Tennessee, the same property where he dug and hoed his tobacco fields, the same property where he was a slumlord.


8 posted on 05/08/2013 7:15:15 AM PDT by Inwoodian
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What kind of oil did he use to make the trip?


9 posted on 05/08/2013 7:15:20 AM PDT by NCLaw441
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But when that scam artist was earning money from his own oil investments it was not unethical?


10 posted on 05/08/2013 7:15:40 AM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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Maybe a problem with accent and translation. I think what he really said was “there’s no such thing as ethical al” but it was misheard/mistranscribed.


11 posted on 05/08/2013 7:16:43 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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12 posted on 05/08/2013 7:18:31 AM PDT by llevrok (2013: - Obama vs America. The new cold war)
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To: Sub-Driver

To think, this retard was within a rats hair to be president.


13 posted on 05/08/2013 7:19:48 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Good then move your fat arse back to you mansion, and sell all your cars, and replace them with bicycles. Hook a stationary bike to a generator, start peddling and get some batteries and start running your refrigerator on it...
14 posted on 05/08/2013 7:20:55 AM PDT by taildragger (( Tighten the 5 point harness and brace for Impact Freepers, ya know it's coming..... ))
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Gee, Al whats the carbon footprint of your California seaside mansion and I’m sure you took a private jet to Toronto and had a limo meeting you at the airport.


15 posted on 05/08/2013 7:23:30 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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Gore worships Mother Earth and thinks oil is her children, so we should not take her children from her. He thinks its ok to kill babies in the womb (don’t know how he feels about murder after babies born). the guy has given himself over to satan totally.

Romans 1

21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.


16 posted on 05/08/2013 7:24:02 AM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness)
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America is not a democracy, Meathead!


17 posted on 05/08/2013 7:25:39 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
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To: Sub-Driver

No such thing as an ethical democrat.


18 posted on 05/08/2013 7:25:52 AM PDT by Third Person (Welcome to Gaymerica.)
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Bwahahahahaha! Y'all still holding a bunch of that Occidental Petroleum Stock, Al?

(I've seen mineral oil, plenty of crude oil, even sunflower oil, but I never squeezed nor drilled an "ethical" for oil. Mebbe he's onto something...NOT!)

19 posted on 05/08/2013 7:26:23 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Sub-Driver

Beware of Snake Oil salesmen


20 posted on 05/08/2013 7:28:25 AM PDT by molson209
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