Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid proclaims: "Coal Makes Us Sick, Oil Makes Us Sick...."

YouTube ^ | June 30, 2008 | laser06

[mdefranc]

"...coal makes us sick, oil makes us sick, it's global warming, it's ruining our country, it's ruining our world, we've got to stop using fossil fuel, we've for generations taken it out of the earth, carbon out of the earth and put it in the atmosphere, it's making us all sick, it's changing our world...."

[xhrist]

Reid and his ilk reminds me of this funny bit from George Carlin's "The Planet Is Fine".
Sorry about the profanity, but that's how he rolled....

"We're so self-important. So self-important. Everybody's going to save something now. "Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails." And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet.

What? Are these f***ing people kidding me? Save the planet, we don't even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven't learned how to care for one another, we're gonna save the f***ing planet?

I'm getting tired of that s***. Tired of that s***. I'm tired of f***ing Earth Day, I'm tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren't enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for their Volvos.

Besides, environmentalists don't give a s*** about the planet. They don't care about the planet. Not in the abstract they don't. Not in the abstract they don't. You know what they're interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They're worried that some day in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced.

Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn't impress me."

entire routine at: http://gospelofreason.wordpress.com/2007/05/24/george-carlin-the-planet-is-fine/

[Fred]

thxs, Reid does not want to find more resources for NG either...

[thackney]

Nevada used to produce most electricity from coal, the switch if fairly recent.