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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid proclaims: "Coal Makes Us Sick, Oil Makes Us Sick...."
YouTube ^ | June 30, 2008 | laser06

Posted on 06/30/2008 5:39:16 PM PDT by 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...."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Religion; Science
KEYWORDS: 110th; coal; congress; democrats; election; energy; environment; harryreid; idiotalert; oil; reid; sickharryreid; ussenate
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To: mdefranc

so what does he suggest in his immense knowledge?


61 posted on 06/30/2008 6:25:39 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: YearningToUnderstand

I don’ know for sure but I think there are those who are looking for a way out.It will come to pass.


62 posted on 06/30/2008 6:25:42 PM PDT by TLEIBY308 (I AM PRO CHOICE,I BELEIVE EVERYONE SHOULD CARRY WHAT EVER GUN THEY CHOOSE)
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To: mdefranc

How about; I cannot drive to work? Makes me sick.
I cannot drive to the hospital, I am out of gas.

That makes me sick.


63 posted on 06/30/2008 6:26:32 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: mdefranc

Hey Harry, your sickness isn’t from oil, you’re a liberal, you have mental disease. The doctor says, ‘open your mouth’ and out comes your words. ‘Yep’, doc says, ‘you’re sick’.


64 posted on 06/30/2008 6:27:08 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: A_perfect_lady
I.m with you!

How in the world does any sane person think like this?

Does he not know that if it weren't for oil or coal we would not have won the second World War.

My Gosh... where in the world is the intellect?

65 posted on 06/30/2008 6:29:10 PM PDT by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier)
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To: oldenuff2no

I agree with your logic!

Thus:
http://www.southernledger.com/blogs/stevegill/?m=200806

The demand for oil by China alone is growing faster than any amount of increased efficiency in automobile fuel efficiency or car-pooling can possibly counter balance. It is that demand, combined with our own self-imposed restrictions on supply, that is the real source of our pain at the pump.

China’s consumption of oil reached a record high and rose an incredible 17% in the first quarter of 2008 alone, according to the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association. A Chinese government think tank has estimated that China’s oil consumption will increase by 62% over the next decade! The actual figure may be double that number. Yet, if Chinese consumption grows by just 62% China would be using at least 12 million barrels of oil a day by 2020 compared to the 20 million barrels currently consumed each day by the U.S.

As China continues to industrialize they are preparing for the demands of an increasingly consumer driven, and automobile driven, nation. In fact, they are in the process of building 42,000 miles of new interstate highways over the next twenty years. To put that in perspective, the entire United States has about 86,000 miles of interstate at the present time. India has plans to construct another 25,000 miles of expressways themselves. Presumably, cars fueled by gasoline are going to drive up and down all those thousands of miles of new highways.

That’s a pretty good assumption since Chinese car sales rose nearly 18% during the first quarter of 20008 alone! The China Association of Auto Manufacturers reported sales of 2.46 million cars during the first four months of this year. China is the second largest car market in the world, and expects to put 10 million new cars on the road in 2008. New cars sold in the U.S. in 2008 are expected to be in the range of 14 to 15 million. With over a billion consumers, China will quickly surpass the U.S. as the number one car market in the world. Could that possible fuel even more demand for gasoline in the years to come?

The bottom line for U.S. consumers is that while restricted supplies of oil have caused the current price spike that is causing so much summer discontent, the long-term economic prognosis is even worse. As the increased demands for oil from China, India and other developing nations kick into high gear the only way to battle back against even higher prices will be alternative fuels AND full access to the oil reserves available to us. That isn’t a matter of blame; it is just a matter of basic economics.


66 posted on 06/30/2008 6:29:40 PM PDT by griswold3 (Al qaeda is guilty of hirabah (war against society) Penalty is death.)
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To: kellynla
polar bears & caribou don't pay the bills ‘round here!

You've got a point, the question is, are the spineless Republicans coming out in droves swinging, and make the case to the American people that we need to built more nuclear power plants, drill offshore, develop technologies to extract oil out of tar sands and/or oil shales, perhaps offshore drilling?

What's wrong to be independent of foreign oil?
Why do we have to pay those Saudis blood money, when we have everything right here, at home.

67 posted on 06/30/2008 6:40:43 PM PDT by danmar (Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today!)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

I’ll maybe do that tomorrow.

I think a call to Reid’s office might be in order also to see if he favors the carbon initiative to raise the summer temps of all buildings in Las Vegas by 10 degrees F ant ot limit lighting KW consumption of all buildings on the strip by 50 %


68 posted on 06/30/2008 6:45:52 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Conservation? Let the NE Yankees freeze.... in the dark)
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To: normy

"These are the days of our great lament. The land thirsts.
A great plague infests our Congress.
They say that strife has made us weak.
That we have become empty.
They say that we rot.
But, we are strong. We are a people of destiny."

69 posted on 06/30/2008 6:49:38 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: mdefranc

Harry is a madman. And the Dems are going to pay dearly for putting him and that psycho hag in charge of Congress.


70 posted on 06/30/2008 6:50:46 PM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: mdefranc

DEMS are holding our economy, our wallets and our NATION HOSTAGE. Say NO in NOvember to their failed polar bears above Americans policies!!


71 posted on 06/30/2008 6:58:45 PM PDT by omega4179 (I HOPE to CHANGE our failed democrat policies and drill everywhere for oil.)
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To: mdefranc

DEMS are holding our economy, our wallets and our NATION HOSTAGE. Say NO in NOvember to their failed polar bears above Americans policies!!


72 posted on 06/30/2008 6:58:49 PM PDT by omega4179 (I HOPE to CHANGE our failed democrat policies and drill everywhere for oil.)
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To: Diogenesis
Harry Reid in all his glory.
73 posted on 06/30/2008 6:59:14 PM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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To: Northern Yankee
Does he not know that if it weren't for oil or coal we would not have won the second World War.

Are you sure he's glad we won?

74 posted on 06/30/2008 6:59:51 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: mdefranc
How about it, RNC?! McCain Campaign? Will you exploit this to your advantage?!??!! Or will you wimp out?
75 posted on 06/30/2008 7:03:48 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (Just say NObama!)
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To: advertising guy

heard on Fox today that airlines are dramatically reducing service to certain cities, Las Vegas among them .. something like 13% of flights in and out.


76 posted on 06/30/2008 7:05:04 PM PDT by EDINVA (Proud American for 23,062 days.... and counting!)
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To: EDINVA

best Vegas web site bar none.......vegastodayandtomorrow.com ( not a link)

I’m doing business with Vegas per my patent and the slow down is hurtin my timing


77 posted on 06/30/2008 7:11:24 PM PDT by advertising guy ( you can type stuff in here.........)
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To: griswold3

outstanding and congrats....you do your dd’s.....but include sheet rock and concrete too


78 posted on 06/30/2008 7:12:45 PM PDT by advertising guy ( you can type stuff in here.........)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

Funny, I thought more people have died from having to deal with Harry Reid’s real estate cronies...

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79 posted on 06/30/2008 7:25:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: potlatch

80 posted on 06/30/2008 8:09:12 PM PDT by devolve (- Danielle/Daniel Allen - brain-exempt androgynous Obama clone -)
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