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159 comments on DrumBeat: February 4, 2008

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westexas on February 4, 2008 - 8:58am

Raymond J. Learsy:

To quote one of the spokesmen for the chief peak oil prankster, and cheerleader for ever higher oil prices, Matt Simmons . . .

Of course, Learsy and ExxonMobil are--by denying the reality of Peak Oil--in effect encouraging Americans to continue driving SUV's to and from suburban mortgages, in effect, encouraging greater consumption. They are not alone.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/viewpoints/vitind...
Dallas Morning News OpEd: Katherine Stout: More roads, not rail

Public transit backers failed last Tuesday to gain corporate support for legislation that would increase sales taxes for expanded public transit – otherwise understood to be an "ambitious" regional rail network. . .

. . . Keeping Texas moving is a high priority, and the inescapable fact is that Texas needs more roads, not more rail cars.

Mary Katherine Stout is vice president for policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a nonprofit, free-market research institute based in Austin.

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mcgowanmc on February 4, 2008 - 10:28am

GM, drugs, religion, evolution, PO, AGW, Pop Overshoot.

You can find everyone's politics and more than you want to know, by
ID'ing their positions on the above.

And absolutely ZERO of the above will be talked about in political discourse.

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Robert Rapier on February 4, 2008 - 11:20am

Raymond J. Learsy:

I think Learsy is an idiot, but I do agree with him that XOM is riding OPEC's coattails. OPEC, Chavez, and Big Oil make strange bedfellows. There is no love lost between the former 2 and the latter, but any moves that restrict supply - intentional or not - benefit Big Oil as well by driving prices higher.