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CaptainCrunch · 01-15-2014, 09:45 AM

If Neil Young actually did some research into his viewpoints and was even somewhat accurate then he would be worth listening too.

Alberta's Oil causes all the pollution in China, well not really the amount of oil and natural gas that goes to China is pretty much insignificant, I think about 3% of Alberta's energy exports go to China.

Fort McMurray smells like fuel and it burns my throat. Well yeah, but most of that is pretty much because the stuff comes out of the ground pretty much naturally. The natives were using it to waterproof stuff a couple of hundred years ago. Even settlers up there complained about the bitter water and smell

Well to produce Oil sands it puts carbon in the air equivalent to every car on the road every day in Canada. It doubles the carbon footprint caused by cars. Well no actually its 1 to 4 versus cars. Still bad but not as bad as the amount of gas coming out of Neil Young's mouth

I drove my electro caddy up here and didn't use any oil. Yet your bus did, and so did the helicopter that you flew around in shooting stock footage, Oh year while ignoring any of the Green initiatives up there and the reclamation sites. On top of that all of your CD's and tapes were manufactured using fuels and the products are petroleum byproducts. You've jetted around the world hauled semi's plugged your stupid car in. You probably have a carbon footprint hundreds of times the size of the average person.

Neil Young decide to go on a campaign, made up facts like crazy and ignored anything that didn't meet his criteria of the truth. They guys a hypocrite who owns multiple properties and enjoys his celebrity status a little too much and thinks that it makes him influential and clever and someone worthy of looking up to.

This whole thing is pretty much him reading some made up facts, making up some facts of his own, then going out of his way to portray it in the most negative way possible to elicit an emotional response. Great, I get that, but all it makes me think now when I see Neil Young is dishonest. Or in the words of some long passed on Flames management group. Intellectually dishonest.

Go back to playing your guitar Neil. and maintaining all of the houses and properties that you own.

01-15-2014, 09:45 AM	#52
CaptainCrunch Norm! Join Date: Jun 2002 Exp:	If Neil Young actually did some research into his viewpoints and was even somewhat accurate then he would be worth listening too. Alberta's Oil causes all the pollution in China, well not really the amount of oil and natural gas that goes to China is pretty much insignificant, I think about 3% of Alberta's energy exports go to China. Fort McMurray smells like fuel and it burns my throat. Well yeah, but most of that is pretty much because the stuff comes out of the ground pretty much naturally. The natives were using it to waterproof stuff a couple of hundred years ago. Even settlers up there complained about the bitter water and smell Well to produce Oil sands it puts carbon in the air equivalent to every car on the road every day in Canada. It doubles the carbon footprint caused by cars. Well no actually its 1 to 4 versus cars. Still bad but not as bad as the amount of gas coming out of Neil Young's mouth I drove my electro caddy up here and didn't use any oil. Yet your bus did, and so did the helicopter that you flew around in shooting stock footage, Oh year while ignoring any of the Green initiatives up there and the reclamation sites. On top of that all of your CD's and tapes were manufactured using fuels and the products are petroleum byproducts. You've jetted around the world hauled semi's plugged your stupid car in. You probably have a carbon footprint hundreds of times the size of the average person. Neil Young decide to go on a campaign, made up facts like crazy and ignored anything that didn't meet his criteria of the truth. They guys a hypocrite who owns multiple properties and enjoys his celebrity status a little too much and thinks that it makes him influential and clever and someone worthy of looking up to. This whole thing is pretty much him reading some made up facts, making up some facts of his own, then going out of his way to portray it in the most negative way possible to elicit an emotional response. Great, I get that, but all it makes me think now when I see Neil Young is dishonest. Or in the words of some long passed on Flames management group. Intellectually dishonest. Go back to playing your guitar Neil. and maintaining all of the houses and properties that you own. Last edited by CaptainCrunch; 01-15-2014 at 09:47 AM.