Not only is ExxonMobil funding global warming denial but the high price of petrol is the biggest rip off.

Here is a story: Oil companies salivating over U.S. reserves by Joe Carroll on May. 29, 2007 from Bloomberg News in The Arizona Republic

Colorado and Utah have as much oil as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Nigeria, Kuwait, Libya, Angola, Algeria, Indonesia, Qatar and United Arab Emirates combined. Trapped in limestone up to 200 feet thick in the two Rocky Mountain states is enough so-called shale oil to rival OPEC and supply the United States for a century.

Exxon Mobil and Chevron, the two biggest U.S. energy companies, and Royal Dutch Shell Plc are spending $100 million a year testing methods to separate the oil from the stone for as little as $30 a barrel. A growing number of industry executives and analysts say new technology and persistently high prices make the idea feasible...

...Seems like ordinary citizens from Canada and America are getting ripped off at the pump by big Oil.

At the same time Big Oil is polluting the water near Fort McMurray, Alberta extrating oil from the Tar Sands.

Al Gore is right...Young people should be protesting in the streets.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot...with so much oil in Colorado and Utah, why are soldiers dying for the oil in Iraq?

Alaska has as much oil as there is in Saudia Arabia but it costs more to take out than in the Muslims countries. The international oil companies want the biggest profit(the spread on the AK oil is not as great as middle eastern oil. If the AK oil was owned and managed by a US government oil company than the Alaska oil would be pumped instead of making the Muslim oil countries the rulers of the world. It is time that we in America have a real "peoples" oil company.

We need to investigate the funding by NASA as well. NASA administrator Michael Griffin is drawing the ire of his agency's preeminent climate scientists after apparently downplaying the need to combat global warming.

Sarah Cohen,

Drilling for more oil is not the answer!! We need to conserve oil and replace it with other energy sources. We have the technology now. Even if we drilled the ANWR, we would get 6 months to 1 year of oil from it. We can do more than that just by improving fuel efficiency.

We can use electric cars and get our electricity from wind, solar, and tidal forces. All of these are proven technologies that work and are in great enough supply to make a far larger contribution than drilling Alaska.

Keep in mind that in order for the human species to survive, we still need a healthy biosphere. We don't know how much more we can damage our biosphere before it is too unhealthy to support us (or many species I personally find more beautiful than our own). We have already caused a mass extinction far greater than the one that took out the non-avian dinosaurs 65.3 million years ago, possibly larger than the one 250 million years ago that was the previous record holder.

"I personally find more beautiful than our own", a viewpoint like this, that values animals more than people, is not part of the debate and worthy of a response. This is the same type of view of some Arab Muslims towards the Jews in Israel. They consider us to be "pigs and dogs". We need to develop America's oil so we will not be dependent upon these type of Muslim Arabs.