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oil rig explosion:Funny how the critics of alternative fuel vehicles never mention the overwhelming support that the fuel (pun intended) our dependence on gasoline and vehicles. As for example the cost of maintaining aircraft carrier battle groups steamed in the Persian Gulf and Eastern Mediterranean to protect shipping routes for oil and oil reserves of the Guard in the Middle East, the cost of long and bloody fighting wars over oil, the cost of our alliances with despotic regimes in oil producers, the cost of maintaining tens of thousands of troops deployed near oil fields in the world, costs associated with national security fight against terrorist groups that have arisen as a result of our involvement in the oil-rich Middle East, the cost of massive tax cuts given to oil companies, the human and economic costs of climate change resulting from the combustion of fossil fuels have resulted in strong hurricanes and massive flooding, the cost of cleaning up oil spills, and the cost of lost jobs, ruined businesses, devastated ecosystems and broken dreams in the wake of oil spills in recent years.
