Greenpeace Protest Deep-Sea Drilling

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  dustinhurst on July 14 at 1:52 p.m.

  If those people wanted to really feel the plight of those animals, that would be real oil on their skin.

  Knowing GreenPeace, it’s probably chocolate.

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  Bent on July 14 at 2:09 p.m.

  Greenpeace needs to outsource their half-naked protests to the PETA girls… /just sayin…

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  Sisyphus on July 14 at 2:14 p.m.

  You know Greenpeace Dustin? Somehow I doubt that.

  In answer to the question, it has reaffirmed my resolve to move this country into the direction of reducing reliance on fossil fuels. The right wing screams about Obama’s plans for wealth redistribution. They must love our trillions going to Iran and Saudi Arabia. Seriously their dissonance on this is bizarre. They’re convinced we’ll eventually be at war with the Middle East and yet they go right on funding it.

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  DFO on July 14 at 3:01 p.m.

  @ Bent re: “Greenpeace needs to outsource their half-naked protests to the PETA girls… /just sayin…”

  Ah, there was also a PETA girl protest in the AP foto wire today. I figured you guys were tired of those. Just sayin’ ;-)

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  Howard_Martinson on July 14 at 3:06 p.m.

  What our country needs, IMHO, is a policy which calls for safely increasing our domestic production, reducing our obscene oil imports and using less oil. Me? I drive an all electric street legal golf cart almost every day. Don’t give me too much credit, however, I also have a big gas hog pickup and a big gas hog boat.

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  kamm on July 14 at 3:52 p.m.

  Why aren’t we working harder developing alternative renewable energy? Wind source energy would be great here, especially on the Rathdrum Prairie.

  Why are we still prostituting ourselves for foreign oil from questionable sources.
  When will we admit to ourselves what other countries already know-this is the only Earth we have and we’re not being good stewards? Will we leave the solutions for the next generation and the next generation and the next?

  We are not alone, we must think about others on the Earth. The US equals 5% of the global population, consumes 25% of the world’s energy, and produces 5 TIMES the average of the world’s per capita CO2 emission. And our population continues to grow.

  Regardless of all the bitching and the moaning about changes in the way we live, our lives are good, people. Our lives are good!

  We have abundant food and clean water; we have walls and floors and roofs. We have adequate wages or financial help. We have electricity for our playthings, more cars and TVs in our neighborhood than are in many global cities. We have roads and neighborhood parks and National Parks. Do I need to go on or do you catch my drift?

  Does anyone see a disconnect here? What can we do to create our own Home Grown energy? We have the time, the talent and the treasure. all we need are the b—ls.

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  kamm on July 14 at 3:55 p.m.

  That’s B—LS

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  Charlie on July 14 at 9:10 p.m.

  Agreed that the world needs to make a real effort at alternative energy, nuclear, wind, geothermal, wave motion, solar,etc. The big “but” is that we can’t do it over night. No nuclear plants have come on line for decades, wind and solar are not totally reliable so where does that leave us, still using coal and oil. Raise your hand if you want a nuclear plant in your town?
  Oil is our life blood right now, the computer you are looking at is partially oil(plastic), the tires on your car are oil, so look around and see what you can do without.
  There needs to be research done but not by the government, if that happens we get a big money pit and nothing to show for it.

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  kamm on July 14 at 9:33 p.m.

  @Charlie Talk is cheap, and this topic has been discussed for decades. This was a hot topic in the late 1970s with gas rationing. There was all kinds of blustery posturing. Here we are, 30 years later, with everyone still complaining and no progress has been made.

  The point is to start! Start something! Start now!
  So one thing won’t work 100% It CAN start to help, can’t it?
  And,yes, I’ll take a nuclear plant in my town.The whole mindset of
  N.I.M.B.Y. is counterproductive. It has to start somewhere. If not with us, then with whom?

  (Not In MY Back Yard)

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  Charlie on July 15 at 5:44 a.m.

  @kamm, two examples of counter productivity. off the shore of Nantucket Bay there was a proposal for a wind farm at sea, it was held up by Ted Kennedy because it would ruin his view, the second was a solar farm in the California desert, it was held up by Diane Fienstein because of the desert tortoise. Talk is cheap to a lot of people.

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  WillyPeter on July 15 at 9:20 a.m.

  Somebody needs to tell all these semi-naked women protesters that to really get our attention they need to be totally, completely naked… chuckle (this is not a ‘PLAYBOY’ ad)

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