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right-wing oil fantasies

Monday, August 18th, 2008 12:39 pm

optical communicationsPeter Dizikes writes about a number of right-wing myths about oilландшафт in today’s Salon.com.

Unbelievably enough, there are people who believe:
# There’s more oil in Alaska than in the Middle East
# The Chinese are about to start drilling — or are already drilling — off the coast of Florida (the Cuba/China menace — Russia/Cuba 2.0 — new and improved!)

and — wait for it —

# Oil is not a “fossil fuel” but a nearly infinite non-organic resource like, I guess, rocks.

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One Response to “right-wing oil fantasies”

  1. Jonathan Bailey Says:
    August 18th, 2008 at 1:47 pm

    Is it possible that the right-wing is getting their information about oil from the Red Vs. Blue Gas Crisis PSA?

    http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=9117950667340299957

    “The solution isn’t to drive less, it’s to kill more dinosaurs!”

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