Life is so filled with ironies, isn't it? Every major election year it seems that gasoline prices skyrocket and every politician has the solution. Of course they make little sense since they prefer to pander instead of considering that oil is a commodity and is treated as such by the marketplace. Anything that may affect supply moves the marketplace. That's how it is in a free market economy. Then we have "Xena Warrior Princess" and her Greenpeace buddies boarding th'e drillship Noble Discoverer in New Zealand where it is destined for the Arctic where "reckless" Shell intends to explore for oil. In the concerted effort to block drilling offshore Alaska, the NRDC denounced the administration's support of Shell, claiming a blowout would endanger polar bears and other wildlife.
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