Noam Chomsky on Energy & Oil

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Climate-change deniers make crisis urgent

The global environmental crisis is urgent. Even some in the business press are nervous that the new Republicans that were elected are almost entirely climate-change deniers. In fact they quoted one recently who is so off-the-wall he said, "We don't have to worry about global warming because God wouldn't allow it to happen." There has been a major corporate propaganda offensive to try to convince people that the environmental crisis is a liberal hoax. This is an extremely dangerous situation. Source: Interview with Rabbi Michael Lerner, Tikkun Magazine , Jun 19, 2011

Climate solution's central element should be high-speed rail

Surely the US manufacturing industries could be reconstructed to produce what the country needs, using its highly skilled work force--and what the world needs, and soon, if we are to hope to have some hope of averting major catastrophe. Source: Hopes and Prospects, by Noam Chomsky, p. 95-96 , Jun 1, 2010

Oil is cheap because Pentagon’s expenditures keep it cheap

Postwar development relied on cheap & abundant oil, kept that way largely by threat or use of force. So matters continue. A large part of the Pentagon budget is devoted to keeping Middle East oil prices within a range that the US and its energy companies consider appropriate. The only technical study of the topic concludes that Pentagon expenditures amount to a subsidy of 30% of the market price of oil. Estimates of alleged efficiencies of trade are of limited validity if we ignore such hidden costs. Source: Profit Over People, by Noam Chomsky, p. 30-31 , Jul 2, 1996

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