Today's Boo-Hoo Award: Saudi Oil Minister Says Climate Policies "Unfairly Tax" Oil - Dow Jones

NEW YORK - Some industrialized countries are unfairly placing high taxes on petroleum products to discourage consumption as a method of addressing climate change, while encouraging greater use of polluting coal and nuclear power, Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali Naimi said.

Naimi told the United Nations meeting on climate change in a speech Monday that these unspecified countries, while lumping taxes on oil, are "at the same time providing direct and indirect aid for the industries of coal and nuclear energy which are the most polluting sources," according to the official Saudi Press Agency.

The oil minister of the world's largest oil exporter, and the de facto leader of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, said these selective policies impact oil demand growth and contribute to "a negative impact on the march of development in our country."

Naimi urged the world body to pursue policies to address climate change in a manner that ensures appropriate solutions "while maintaining the continued growth of the global economy

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http://realtimenews.slb.com/news/story.cfm?storyid=644758

Uh-oh...

Society will always need oil. Nobody is going to become penniless if people reduce their consumption of it a little.

I don't buy the proposition that anyone in the anti-nuclear industry gives a rat's ass about dangerous fossil fuel waste.

There is not ONE anti-nuke who is working to ban dangerous fossil fuel use, not ONE.

You hear these meaningless platitudes, lip service sound bites, from the anti-nuke industry about dangerous fossil fuel waste - which kills constantly without cessation or even pause - and in the next breath the very same people are working to ban the world's largest, by far, climate change gas free energy.

Tell it to shit for brains Lovins, who never met an asphalt highway - especially the one that leads from Snowmass to Little Nell's in Aspen - he didn't like.

http://www.theoildrum.com/tag/walkable

There's a vast space between useless platitudes and actual respect for the real options.

when this dude starts drinking.

You can't buy entertainment like this...

I guess if we were to ban oil you would be able to have your nuclear power either.. You're in an odd predicament..

Like rats in a cage as the food is running out...
Oh yeah, and "while maintaining the continued growth of the global economy" my ass. :banghead:

Something less than impressive like that . . .