[lbo-talk] Oil Is A Renewable Resource! Take That, You Peaksters!

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Sep 6 06:01:35 PDT 2006


On Sep 6, 2006, at 6:42 AM, Andy F wrote:


> On 9/6/06, Chuck <chuck at mutualaid.org> wrote:
>
>> Did Cockburn really write this bullshit? Wow, I just lost a bunch of
>> respect for him. This is like some intelligent lefty writer
>> drinking the
>> 9/11 Kool Aid.
>
> You must have missed his global warming skeptic column a few years
> back. He basically pulled a Crichton, making a show of going around
> interviewing climate scientists and then posing very basic questions
> that he obviously didn't ask the scientists.

Cockburn loves big old cars, so he wants global warming not to be true. And he also likes to blame pollution on corporations, which would let the drivers of gas-guzzlers off the hook.

Doug



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