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Comment Re:Hail to the uninformed (Score 1, Interesting) 194

I'd like proof that they lie. I looked into corn blight and there are none 'decimating the corn supply' like you say (and thus, makes you a liar). A link would be helpful (and not from one of those bullshit news blogs like naturalnews that quote themselves and act like that's ok). Monsanto may have made agent orange but they didn't decide to throw it all over the vietnamese, so don't try to blame them for what their customers did. I am far more inclined to believe a corporation like monsanto opposed to a bunch of rabid hippies who believe they're more in tune with nature because they haven't worn shoes in 7 years. You need to look up the current orange blight, the one that no 'natural' oranges have an immunity to, and the GM oranges that do have an immunity to it. In ten years there won't be a non-GM orange alive. Of course knowing you retards you're going to say monsanto probably caused that disease too, as you like to accuse without evidence.

Comment Re:Fucking rednecks (Score 1) 1030

because they use resources when transporting them across that ocean thing that could otherwise be saved or spent on something more worthwhile. Just because you can buy them cheaper from china does not mean they were cheaper to produce. It just means someone or something else is getting the short end of the stick

Comment Re:Fucking rednecks (Score 1) 1030

But you need what they did with solyndra, or otherwise you end up buying all your panels from china, and losing out on the economic benefits. We need a domestic supplier of solar panels if we hope to encourage adoption. It just seems more and more clear to me that we just jumped the gun on solyndra, not that the choice itself was a bad one.

Comment Re:in sue happy america (Score 1) 519

Except they don't have any evidence he's a thief. But he did just claim that some maniac just shot him with rocksalt after yelling incoherently and he'd like to press charges for assault. Since they don't have a warrant for any of his shit and there's not enough probable cause to get one, who do you think will go to jail first?

Submission + - There Would Be No Iranian Nuclear Talks If Not for Fracking (hughpickens.com)

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes: Matthew Philips writes at Bloomberg that US Secretary of State John Kerry landed in Geneva on Friday to begin negotiations with Iran over its nuclear weapons program and there is sudden optimism that a deal is in the offing. But the simple fact is that Iran would not be coming to the negotiating table without the US oil boom. Over the last two years, the US has increased its crude production by about 2 million barrels a day. According to a recent report from the Congressional Research Service (pdf), Iran’s oil exports have been cut in half since 2011 (PDF), from 2.5 million barrels per day to a bit more than 1 million today. As a result, Iran has had to halt an equal amount of production. “I think it’s pretty clear that without the U.S. shale revolution, it never would have been possible to put this kind of embargo on Iran,” says Julius Walker. “Without US production gains, I think we’d be looking at $150 a barrel." Instead, international prices have hovered around $110, and are less than $100 in the US. According to data from Bloomberg, the combined carrying capacity of oil tankers leaving Iranian ports last month dropped 22 percent from September. “They’re having a very hard time finding buyers,” says Walker. If a deal gets done, the trick will be to ease Iranian oil back onto the broader market without disrupting prices. If not managed properly, flooding the market with Iranian crude could carry its own negative consequences by suddenly making fracked oil in the US unprofitable.

Comment Re:Here is a thought.. (Score 2) 400

No, the house shut down the govt for 3 weeks and then a week before the site goes live (with no work having been done on it during the shutdown) it comes back. Deadline passes and of course the site isn't ready. Republicans, eager to confuse their constituents over the fact they stalled the government, complain about the site not being ready. Dumbasses like you believe them, and blame Obama.

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