Friday, January 27, 2006

Al Gore and Big Oil


It's funny to hear Al Gore lecture Canada about
the political influence of Big Oil, Gore accuses big oil of bankrolling Tories when he is a shareholder in Big Oil.




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4 comments:

DASawyer said...

Thomas Jefferson had some thing to say about slavery, as well. He was also a slaveowner, and was until, and beyond, his death (he did not release his slaves in his will).

It is possible for wealthy men to have good ideas. It would have been nice, however, had Jefferson released his slaves.

EUGENE PLAWIUK said...

Yes and Jefferson like Washington also grew hemp and fought against large scale bankers and industrialists in favour of farmers and an agrarian America which was a losing battle.

That being said Gore has Tipper who wanted to censor records for the good of America's youth. Which ended up going nowherer except as parental advesory labels. On the other hand it did give us
Henry Rollins and his one man libertarian crusade.

EUGENE PLAWIUK said...

I just checked out Tarvoks blog, you should to. It's quite enlightening, but thats because I was surprized to find we agree on several issues he has posted on his The Weekly Rambling, such as his position on the Iran Nuke question and on the need to legalize drugs. And he has a Gore Speech on the current Bush Spy Scandal in the U.S. On a Libertarian blog yet.

DASawyer said...

Yeah, us Libertarians are crazy. A colleague of mine (wow, I can say "colleague" now!) was talking today about how people just can't figure us out. One guy actually asked him, "How can you be for the free market AND drug legalization at the same time?"

I mean, seriously, it's a no-brainer from where I stand, but the American "conservative-liberal" false dichotomy generally rules the way people think, as opposed to actual logical thought.