Reuters: Gore, (Bill) Clinton headline energy conference

Gore, Clinton headline energy conference

By H. JOSEF HEBERT – 2 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Al Gore warned Monday against allowing lower oil prices to stall efforts to put a price on heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions to combat climate change and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil.

Gore, the Nobel prize winner who has focused on global warming since losing the presidency in 2000, told a clean energy conference that oil prices are like a roller coaster and will go up again. He said that the country must reduce carbon dioxide pollution from the burning of fossil fuels and "we've got to wean ourselves from this dangerous foreign oil."

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"Let's don't undersell the efficiency investment angle," said former President Bill Clinton, another participant in the conference. He too warned against being misled by falling oil prices, which have plummeted from a high of $145 a barrel last summer to the $35 range.

In the past, Clinton said, "oil dropped and everybody said give us our Hummer back.

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