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kpete

(72,901 posts)
Wed May 8, 2013, 10:35 AM May 2013

Al Gore: “There’s no such thing as ethical oil. There’s only dirty oil and dirtier oil”

Gore: 'There's no such thing as ethical oil'
By Zack Colman - 05/08/13 09:14 AM ET

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Former Vice President Al Gore on Tuesday said "there's no such thing as ethical oil," slamming the notion that importing oil from U.S. ally Canada was better than doing so from unfriendly nations.

“There’s no such thing as ethical oil. There’s only dirty oil and dirtier oil,” Gore told Canada’s The Globe and Mail during a Tuesday event in Toronto.

Gore was responding to Globe and Mail Editor-in-Chief John Stackhouse on whether it made a difference that oil sands from the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would come from a democratic nation.


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Al Gore: “There’s no such thing as ethical oil. There’s only dirty oil and dirtier oil” (Original Post) kpete May 2013 OP
that's why he flies in a private jet markiv May 2013 #1
Son of Al Gore, Sr, director of Occidental Petroleum and Chairman of Island Creek Coal FarCenter May 2013 #2
Wrong forum. grahamhgreen May 2013 #5
They're electric, really! Purplehazed May 2013 #3
You got that right! grahamhgreen May 2013 #4
 

markiv

(1,489 posts)
1. that's why he flies in a private jet
Wed May 8, 2013, 10:39 AM
May 2013

it's the only way he can be sure the jet uses the cleanest fuel

 

FarCenter

(19,429 posts)
2. Son of Al Gore, Sr, director of Occidental Petroleum and Chairman of Island Creek Coal
Wed May 8, 2013, 10:49 AM
May 2013
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