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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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To: unixfox
Among others, we have the citizens of Tennessee to thank for not voting for Algore.
They hardly knew who he was...
41 posted on 05/08/2013 8:25:48 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (NRA Life Member)
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To: Sub-Driver

Yeah Al, it was real ethical to sell your media company to the propaganda arm of our main combatants. If it was up to me, algore would be in prison for life for treason.


42 posted on 05/08/2013 8:27:12 AM PDT by catfish1957 (My dream for hope and change is to see the punk POTUS in prison for treason)
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To: Sub-Driver

Except for the oil belonging to that Arab royal family he sold his network to.


43 posted on 05/08/2013 8:29:30 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Find a picture with an adult skull. And a male pelvis.


44 posted on 05/08/2013 8:37:23 AM PDT by heartwood
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To: heartwood

I didn’t make the graphic. It is what it is. ;-)


45 posted on 05/08/2013 8:42:54 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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To: Sub-Driver

When I need instructions on what is ethical and what isn’t, Gore doesn’t spring to mind as someone to go to.


46 posted on 05/08/2013 8:46:52 AM PDT by pallis
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To: DJ MacWoW

Way too obviously an illustration of birth at the moment of crowning.

If it were a case of cranio-rectal inversion, the politician would have had to enter his rectum through his navel to be facing that way.

We need another illustration.


47 posted on 05/08/2013 8:48:08 AM PDT by heartwood
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To: heartwood

You’re free to search for one. Let me know what you find. I’ll use it.


48 posted on 05/08/2013 8:50:06 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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To: Sub-Driver

apparently he has no qualms abotu burnign through tons of unethical oil hismelf


49 posted on 05/08/2013 8:51:12 AM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: Sub-Driver

What about the oil he made his first million from? More proof it is a religion and not a science.

Pray for America to Wake Up


50 posted on 05/08/2013 8:59:45 AM PDT by bray (Surviving to spite Obama)
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To: Sub-Driver

Unless it’s the Al Jazeera guys, right, Al?


51 posted on 05/08/2013 9:02:03 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Alas, best I can find is x-ray or line drawing.

52 posted on 05/08/2013 9:07:03 AM PDT by heartwood
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To: heartwood

I found the graphic that I use while searching for something else. It’s funny whether it’s incorrect or not. I certainly wish that you could have found a correct graphic. Oh well. Thanks for trying!


53 posted on 05/08/2013 9:15:27 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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To: Sub-Driver

...so says Al-Jazeera Gore.


54 posted on 05/08/2013 9:35:04 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is v?ery late in the day.")
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To: Sub-Driver

The notorious Free Trader Al Gore at it again....trying to destroy wealth and capitalism


55 posted on 05/08/2013 10:32:34 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (GOP - Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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To: Sub-Driver

Is there such a thing as an ethical hypocrite?


56 posted on 05/08/2013 10:59:51 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Very good editorial about this here http://www.torontosun.com/2013/05/10/on-ethical-oil-blood-and-gore

From the editorial “If you want to know the name of his book, look it up”.


57 posted on 05/11/2013 6:29:08 AM PDT by Dartman (Mubarak and Gaddafi are going to look like choirboys when this is over)
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To: Squawk 8888

ping


58 posted on 05/11/2013 6:30:20 AM PDT by Dartman (Mubarak and Gaddafi are going to look like choirboys when this is over)
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To: Sub-Driver
‘No such thing as ethical oil,’ Al Gore tells Toronto audience

Of course there isn't. There is no such thing as unethical oil either. Oil is a mineral and as such is unable to be ethical or unethical.

I am glad to see he has learned what my niece learned at age two.

59 posted on 05/11/2013 6:43:07 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Join AAAA : Americans Against Acronym Abuse)
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To: Clive; exg; Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; Cannoneer No. 4; ...
Thanks Dartman.

To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.

Canada Ping!

60 posted on 05/11/2013 12:03:04 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (True North- Strong Leader, Strong Dollar)
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