Reply #1: I can't resist posting here Don Young's comments

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yesterday afternoon at the hearing on BP corrosion at Prudhoe Bay. This is just too good.

http://www.adn.com/money/industries/oil/pipeline/story/8192414p-8085097c.html

Before he left the hearing, Young, noting the presence of network TV crews, took a moment to reflect on his thoughts regarding climate change, citing the benefit of global warming -- not caused by man -- in another eon to an area that today is frozen much of the year. "We're dealing with the most northern part of the United States of America, and a most hostile climate, and we're pumping oil, and I'd just like to remind them if they're asked where did the oil come from, and I would say this to Al Gore specifically: This was a jungle at one time, this was a forest at one time, this was a fern-laden area with mammoths at one time, and that's really why we're pumping oil," he said.

Next to speak was the committee's ranking Democrat, James Oberstar of Minnesota, who reminded Young that while global warming might have been good for fern jungles, human civilization is another story.

"That happened years ago," Oberstar said. "The place was uninhabited by humans at that time."



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