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Old 02-27-2007, 09:10 AM  
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The amount of energy he uses is nothing compared to how much Oil he owns


"In September of 1995, as part of the pompously named National Performance Review?Al Gore?s fatuous project to cut down government waste, fraud and mismanagement?the Vice President boldly declared that he was recommending the privatization of Elk Hills, a 47,000-acre oil-rich land in Southern California. Since 1912 it had been in the possession of the U.S. Navy as an emergency oil reserve. The oil companies salivated and made their bids. In October 1997 the Energy Dept. announced that the U.S. government would sell its stake in Elk Hills to Occidental Petroleum for $3.65 billion. Overnight, Occidental?s U.S. oil reserves tripled. Occidental?s stock surged and its stockholders glowed. One of them was the Vice President?s father, Al Gore Sr. He owned more than $500,000 worth of Occidental stock. A clear conflict of interest? Not to the airheads in the media. Neither then nor any time since have they evinced the slightest curiosity about this deal. Or indeed about the Gore family?s long and intimate connection with Occidental and, in particular, with its longtime chairman, the shady and sinister Armand Hammer."

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