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1. You can't have an honest discussion about energy independence

Sat Aug 25, 2012, 10:22 PM

Aug 2012

and base it only on a resource that is finite. So their motive must be profit for the fossil fuel industry

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Is the GOP preference for fossil fuel because big corporations are the only ones [View all] applegrove Aug 2012 OP

You can't have an honest discussion about energy independence Incitatus Aug 2012 #1

Big oil is heavily invested in wind farms. Agnosticsherbet Aug 2012 #2

Big Oil and Big Energy do not talk about their extensive investment into... Agnosticsherbet Aug 2012 #7

Here is one of the links I've been seeing in the last few days. applegrove Aug 2012 #8

Here is another article that got me thinking. applegrove Aug 2012 #9

That is part of it. Agnosticsherbet Aug 2012 #11

It is not just oil nadinbrzezinski Aug 2012 #10

I think it's just easy imagery to say oil, oil, oil... Agnosticsherbet Aug 2012 #13

Trust me, we know. nadinbrzezinski Aug 2012 #14

yes limpyhobbler Aug 2012 #12

They can't sell wind or sunshine, no money in that. julian09 Aug 2012 #15