Al Gore could become world's first carbon billionaire

Dude, I'm against farm subsidies, terriffs, and govt. propping up businesses. It stinks of the same sort of things that Ayn Rand wrote about in Atlas Shrugged - companies getting into bed with government to get legislation passed to assure their success.

I had issues with Haliburton, but when I did a bit of research I found that Haliburton is simply one of a very few companies qualified for the work the govt. needed and was paid $billions during the Clinton Administration as well. If it were some new company that a republican invested in that was getting $billions in grants, I'd be equally up in arms.