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Jon Stewart: 8 Presidents Said We'll Get Off Foreign Oil -- 'Fool Me 8 Times, Am I A F--king Idiot?' (VIDEO)

Jillian Rayfield | June 17, 2010, 9:57AM

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Jon Stewart took a look back at old presidential speeches last night, and realized that the past eight presidents have promised to move the U.S. away from foreign oil toward energy independence. "Fool me once, shame on you," he said. "Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me eight times -- Am I a f--king idiot?"

"F--k it," Stewart decided. "Let's just use oil. You know what? We have to. I will not allow the dinosaurs to have died in vain."

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synchronicity

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June 17, 2010 10:36 AM   

While it is true and I think many people have pointed this out, that every president has said this probably in my life time, President Obama did acknowledge that. And people in Alaska died before seeing a dime from Exxon and they are still cleaning it up and suffering the consequences of that spill.

The difference of getting money and getting people paid 'now' and taking that process out of BP's hands is significant.

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sheerahkahn

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June 17, 2010 11:27 AM   

But it doesn't matter now...trend analysis says that if all evidence points in a particular direction, no matter how much you decieve yourself into believing it's going to change...it won't.
I think we all need to come to accept that regardless of political party the bottom line is quite simple...Democrats and Republicans are on the same page when it comes to oil, and they will not change their stance which means that a political solution will not be forthcoming.
We are just going to have to accept that, and move on, and hope that some kid in a lab finds us a new energy source and gets it out before Halliburton discovers what he's done, and buys the kid out for a billion dollars, only to bury the discovery in Cheney's man-vault.

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Matt B

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June 17, 2010 11:44 AM   

If we, as a country, truly want to move off of oil then we as a country have to accept what this means - consuming oil will have to be made more expensive than other energy sources, and/or huge resources will have to be poured into these "other energy sources" to make them more viable.

Everyone is for saying we should reduce dependency on foreign oil, but are we really ready to pay the consequences of what it takes for this to happen?

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EH

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June 17, 2010 5:21 PM    in reply to Matt B

That's just another way of saying that the cost of alternative power needs to be brought lower than petroleum.

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SHKrau

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June 17, 2010 1:01 PM   

Love this....This is some form of the truth. It is hard to tell what the truth is now a days...
GO JON...Go

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June 17, 2010 3:27 PM   

* We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Natures inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
o In conversation with Henry Ford and w:Harvey Firestone (1931); as quoted in Uncommon Friends : Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh (1987) by James Newton, p. 31

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