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As we know, Senator Obama is all for renegotiating NAFTA and bashing Canada and Mexico around a little bit.

He must think that gas is too cheap at $4.00+ because the US gets a lot of oil at good prices because of NAFTA.

In Energy Answers Await At Our Doorstep, Thomas A. Shannon and Daniel S. Sullivan, both assistant secretaries at the State Department, explain,

As gasoline prices continue to soar, few Americans realize that a key element for strengthening our energy security is right next door. Nearly 50% of our energy imports come from our neighbors in the Western Hemisphere.

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Lawrence Solomon made a presentation at the Petroleum Club in Calgary and discussed the scientific consensus that global warming proponents are always talking about.

Let me tell you why most people think that global warming is a serious problem. It comes down to one number: 2500. That’s the number of scientists associated with the UN’s Panel on Climate Change that the press reports has endorsed the UN Panel’s conclusions. These are the conclusions that get released in the UN’s mammoth reports every six years or so, and that then dominate the media airwaves for weeks.

“2500 scientists can’t be wrong,” the press always says, explicitly or implicitly. Without that number, it would have no basis for the claim that they repeat over and over again — that there’s a consensus on climate change.

2500 is an impressive number of scientists. To find out who, exactly, they were, I contacted the Secretariat of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and asked for their names. The Secretariat replied that the names were not public, so I couldn’t have them. And I learned that the 2500 scientists were reviewers, not endorsers.

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