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

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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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[markiv]

1. that's why he flies in a private jet

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

[FarCenter]

2. Son of Al Gore, Sr, director of Occidental Petroleum and Chairman of Island Creek Coal

[grahamhgreen]

5. Wrong forum.

Try Free Republic.

[Purplehazed]

3. They're electric, really!

[grahamhgreen]

4. You got that right!