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Originally Posted by finnbow
I happen to have a greater confidence in science and technology than I do in whiny environmentalists fulling understanding and weighing the available options commensurate with our energy needs. YMMV. 
The whole Keystone pipeline debate has become an article of faith for both sides, neither of which are correct IMO. It will neither destroy the earth and the aquifer, nor will it solve our employment problems. It has simply a symbolic issue for both sides to champion. |
We'd be using far less fossil fuel to generate electricity today if TMI hadn't been used to further a cause. We humans tend to go ape all too often.
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Last edited by nailer; 01-24-2015 at 01:44 PM.
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