- The recent campaign to link the owners of SUVs (sport
utility vehicles) to the support of terrorism -- because we must import
oil from terrorist supporting nations to fuel our vehicles -- is being
orchestrated by the greatest cause of our reliance on foreign oil, the
environmental movement.
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- Their casting of stones at everyday citizens that are
driving larger vehicles would be laughable were their policies not so ruinous
to our nation.
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- If dependence on foreign oil supports terrorism, no bigger
sponsor of terror exists than Big Green.
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- The United States has a virtually unlimited supply of
coal and uranium, and the use of these fuel sources would totally eliminate
the need to use oil to produce electricity. Burning oil to generate power
is a forced and uneconomical waste of a valuable resource.
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- Of the remaining oil we would need for vehicles and the
chemical industry, more than ample reserves reside within our borders,
although once again Big Green forces us to leave much of the resource under
the earth.
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- Regulations and litigation driven by the environmental
agencies and their fellow travelers in Federal and State environmental
agencies has worked to strangle energy production in the United States.
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- Ariana Huffington, whose chief claim to fame was marrying
into wealth, can equate driving a SUV to supporting terrorists, yet can't
bring herself to condemn the factions within our own borders that are most
responsible for crippling our own production of energy.
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- Many may remember the Clinton administration's actions,
closing vast resources of clean western coal in Utah by applying 'national
monument' status -- while our own utilities import the same coal from foreign
sources.
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- Nuclear power, our cheapest source of energy, has been
regulated and litigated into oblivion.
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- Coal, which is truly an unlimited resource, cannot be
efficiently used -- as EPA mandates require the same enormously expensive
control devices on clean-burning western coal as on the dirtier eastern
soft coal.
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- Large oil reserves in Alaska are forbidden, large coal
reserves are forbidden, nuclear power is forbidden, and it is the SUV drivers
are supporting the terrorists?
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- The Number One enemy of American energy independence
is still Big Green, and if anyone deserves credit for assisting terrorists
through a created demand for foreign oil, let the environmental movement
step forward to claim its > award.
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