Report Links Cheney Office, Oil Giant to Global Warming Policy Shift


	Report Links Cheney Office, Oil Giant to Global Warming Policy Shift

tabsey

7-21-2008 10:06 AM

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will, i, live, long, enough, to, become, extinct?

tabsey says:

History may record the oil companies as being the dinosaurs of the industrial revolution. They have grown so large that the move to renewables may see them the first to become extinct.

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