Yes, folks, a Republican climate solution is possible.

And you know what?

It may even be better.

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Talks from former Republican Congressman Bob Ingalls and author and entrepreneur Ted

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and finishing with another interview on Emence Possibilities with Bob Ingalls.

When I first went to Congress, I said that climate change was a bunch of huli.

Al Gore is imagination.

Had a very successful press conference one time, sacks of coal, wood for fire burning,

and we said Al Gore is going to raise these poor people's energy prices here in the

cold Greenville, South Carolina, of course.

Not many people heat with coal or wood in Greenville, South Carolina or some do.

A very successful press conference.

It was all based on ignorance for me.

I had not looked into the facts at all.

All I knew was that Al Gore was for it, and therefore I was against it.

Because I represented perhaps the Redist District in the Redist State in the nation.

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