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Reid: Coal & Oil are Making Us Sick

Reid: Coal & Oil are Making Us Sick

Juan Cole 07/01/2008

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Senate majority leader points out that solar energy is only considered three times as expensive as coal because no one factors in all the hidden costs of coal & other hydrocarbons.

And imagine, they are fighting major wars and planning more wars in order to get more of the poison out of the ground!

I wouldn’t sink a lot of money into that beach front home if I were you.

And news that seems as though it is out of science fiction flashes on our television screens. No ice in the arctic!

“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.” – Benjamin Franklin

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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