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...fighter for the little guy. And when his opponent attacked the move, Gore could again paint Bush and Cheney as a ticket "of Big Oil, by Big Oil and for Big Oil." When Bush and Cheney stressed their plan to increase domestic oil production by opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to drilling, the Gore team was even happier. They quickly reminded reporters that Cheney's former firm, Halliburton, would reap windfall profits from such a move...
...wants to open 1.5 million acres of the 19-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to "environmentally responsible, regulated exploration," which is where the energy issue crosses over to Gore's home turf: the environment...
...Arctic Meltdown...
Obviously the greenhouse gases are going somewhere. How can people say that the rising temperatures in the Arctic are just a natural variation in climate? Hello! Do they think that toxic gases have absolutely no harmful effects on the environment? How can people ignore what they are doing to the earth? MARIANNA HAGBLOOM Christiansted, Virgin Islands...
Your article on rising temperatures and the thinning of Arctic sea ice was an eye opener. It is time to realize that deposits of fossil fuels are nature's garbage dumps and that we need to think seriously of ways to cease using this garbage in our biosphere. To convert futile complaints about greenhouse gases into positive action, we should free all non-fossil-carbon energy technologies from taxes for five or even 10 years of active production and sales. There is nothing like the lure of no taxes to stimulate businesses to come up with creative solutions to "insoluble...