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 More options Nov 13 2012, 10:10 pm
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming
From: gordo <grmerr...@shaw.ca.remove>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:09:58 -0800
Local: Tues, Nov 13 2012 10:09 pm
Subject: Re: Saudi Arabia revealed plans to receive no less than 100% of its energy through renewable sources in the near future.
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:16:21 -0800, Chom Noamsky <c...@noamsky.here>
wrote:

>On 11/13/2012 4:06 PM, gordo wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:01:31 -0800, Chom Noamsky <c...@noamsky.here>
>> wrote:

>>> On 11/13/2012 12:45 PM, gordo wrote:
>>>> Saudi Arabia is the worlds largest supplier of oil yet it is going
>>>> full bore into renewables. 100% in the near future is its goal. Just
>>>> something for deniers to contemplate.What do the Saudis know that you
>>>> don't?

>>> Didn't read the article, did you. Saudi Arabia thinks oil is worth more
>>> for making plastics and polymers... the nation's motivation to go
>>> renewables has nothing to do with climate change or lowing carbon
>>> emissions.
>> Yes I read the article and yes oil is too valuable to just burn. When
>> it is in plastic it does not contribute to global warming.

>Give me reliable solar and wind at competitive prices and I'm in like a
>dirty shirt, gordo.   Won't hold my breath, my grandkids might see the
>day.

Good. It might be sooner than you think with countries awash in oil
like Saudi Arabia going that route.

 
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