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This Earth Day, Thank Big Oil

April 22, 2010 - 12:43 pm - by Alex Epstein
RockThisTown
2010-04-25 07:35:25

” . . . the scientists tell us that the reality is that we’ve got to change the way we live”

Unfortunately, liberals wanting to tell others how to live has politicized science. Sadly, we can’t even believe the people (scientists) who are supposed to be unbiased and simply report their findings. Their next grant may depend on what they say.
“Your findings don’t comport with our stated global climate change ideology, so, sorry, your research grant request for next year will not be approved.”

Funny, but I haven’t heard scientists tell me the reality. What I’ve heard is a biased media twist & distort the truth, often into outright lies. What . . . am I supposed to start riding my bike to work in Birkenstocks? I do ride my bike on the weekends (for exercise, not the environment, and I don’t tell everyone else they must do the same), but I’ll stick to driving my carbon dioxide-emitting, internal combustion engine-powered automobile to work and back until I can no longer purchase the fuel to power it. sTeeve, I do wonder . . . how do you travel? Do you walk or bicycle everywhere you go, or, like many hypocritical liberals, do you drive or ride in a carbon-based fuel automobile but tell others not to? How is your house heated & cooled? Your use of a computer here proves you’re using electricity. Where do you think it comes from? The electricity powering the computer you’re using, in all likelihood, has at least some carbon-based origin. Also, oil was likely used to produce the computer you’re using, AND deliver it to either your home, or the site of purchase. Interestingly, you provide no specifics on how we reach your utopian goal of a carbon-free energy system.