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Environment & Energy

Rhiannon12866

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3. That's an excellent point.

Reply to duforsure (Reply #2)

Wed Feb 7, 2018, 08:23 AM

Feb 2018

They have a lot of oil in Russia. And you're absolutely right, he is messing with the environment any way he can. And he has no thought of any other humans besides himself. He wants to send coal miners back into the mines, he doesn't care if the water is polluted or if flooding makes areas of this country inhabitable. He believes that he's in charge of everything now, land sea and air - and he can do whatever he wants with it. And if fellow Americans don't bow and scrape and admire him, they must be "traitors." That's how the worst dictators in history behaved...

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Trump Wants Offshore Drilling, but States Are Choosing Wind Energy [View all] Rhiannon12866 Feb 2018 OP

You can't stop progress janterry Feb 2018 #1

Oil is quickly becoming like coal duforsure Feb 2018 #2

That's an excellent point. Rhiannon12866 Feb 2018 #3

To be fair, wind spills are almost as devastating as oil spills IronLionZion Feb 2018 #4

The governors of every single coastal state have protested the proposed drilling Rhiannon12866 Feb 2018 #5

Gosh, it's almost like the states had ... I don't know ... rights, or something. eppur_se_muova Feb 2018 #6