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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman

Reads like some eco-boy with a huge agenda

I won't disagree that is a possibility. Another possibility is someone who views issues with a broader perspective and has observed the cost of petroleum beyond the price at the pump. In the last decade the United States has engaged in a war with a country that now looks like nothing more than an effort to control over a region where the most oil in the world is produced. They have also experienced two of the most devastating coastal events that has released raw crude into the ocean and caused numerous dead zones because of it. Pragmatically it makes sense to start moving away from reliance on petroleum products.

Originally Posted by zuluking

You think the column is weak, but that comment is not?!?!?

I'll say it again: I've read the report and the column I linked sums it up fairly well. What does that comment have to do with the inquiries? Nothing.

The comment is about the column, not the inquiries. I said the column was weak, and I stand by that comment. Some demands for investigation are superfluous and not worthy of the effort or expense to conduct. Without being privy to the details of the request for the original investigation it is impossible to say was handled inappropriately or not. Since the original emails released were very selective in nature, and obtained through illegal means in their own right, I would say that condemning any review or inquiry without being privy to all details is, as I called the column, weak.