# The most ironic moment in economic history
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-most-ironic-moment-in-economic-history/50694
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [June 27, 2008, 11:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-most-ironic-moment-in-economic-history/50694 "2008-06-27T11:20:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Schema](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Schema)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2008, 11:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-most-ironic-moment-in-economic-history/50694/1 "2008-06-27T11:20:41Z")
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> **North Pole could be ice-free this summer, scientists say**
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> **(CNN) – The North Pole may be briefly ice-free by September as global warming melts away Arctic sea ice, according to scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.**
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> **…snip…**
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> **There are some positive aspects to the ice melting, he said. Ships could use the Northwest Passage to save time and energy by no longer having to travel through the Panama Canal or around Cape Horn.**
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> **“There’s also, or course, oil at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean,” he said. “Now, the irony of that is kind of clear but the fact that we are opening up the Arctic Ocean does make it more accessible.”**
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> **[http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/weather/06/27/north.pole.melting/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/weather/06/27/north.pole.melting/index.html)**
It was planned all along!!!
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2008, 11:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-most-ironic-moment-in-economic-history/50694/2 "2008-06-27T11:23:20Z")
It’s official. The world is ending.
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2008, 11:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-most-ironic-moment-in-economic-history/50694/3 "2008-06-27T11:25:28Z")
Doesn’t matter, we won’t be allowed to drill there. 😛
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2008, 11:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-most-ironic-moment-in-economic-history/50694/4 "2008-06-27T11:26:08Z")
> [@JayS](#):
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> Doesn’t matter, we won’t be allowed to drill there. 😛
No but Russian and China will be there, August 31st.
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### Author:  [@burnt\_toast](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/burnt_toast)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2008, 11:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-most-ironic-moment-in-economic-history/50694/5 "2008-06-27T11:26:24Z")
no ice at the north pole? fuck… there goes christmas. all those elves…what a waste.
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2008, 11:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-most-ironic-moment-in-economic-history/50694/6 "2008-06-27T11:30:37Z")
> [@Nikuk](#):
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> No but Russian and China will be there, August 31st.
Hopefully China and they sell it to Walmart cheap. 😉
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### Author:  [@PureXTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PureXTC)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2008, 11:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-most-ironic-moment-in-economic-history/50694/7 "2008-06-27T11:32:13Z")
> [@burnt\_toast](#):
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> no ice at the north pole? fuck… there goes christmas. all those elves…what a waste.
LOL
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2008, 11:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-most-ironic-moment-in-economic-history/50694/8 "2008-06-27T11:32:30Z")
> [@JayS](#):
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> Hopefully China and they sell it to Walmart cheap. 😉
iPfft. If china found quick & “easy” access to oil, selling it to america would be about the last thing on the To Do list.
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2008, 11:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-most-ironic-moment-in-economic-history/50694/9 "2008-06-27T11:54:42Z")
^ True, but at least they could continue selling us poorly made crap for deep deep discounts.
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2008, 12:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-most-ironic-moment-in-economic-history/50694/10 "2008-06-27T12:03:15Z")
> [@JayS](#):
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> ^ True, but at least they could continue selling us poorly made crap for deep deep discounts.
Thats funny, because the people blocking US drilling are prolly believers of “Save Money, Live Better”
:hang:
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### Author:  [@j\_espo1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/j_espo1)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2008, 12:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-most-ironic-moment-in-economic-history/50694/11 "2008-06-27T12:14:00Z")
> [@JayS](#):
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> Doesn’t matter, we won’t be allowed to drill there.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2008, 12:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-most-ironic-moment-in-economic-history/50694/12 "2008-06-27T12:14:27Z")
sweet
so when do we all die? I’m going to be pretty upset if Al Gore was lying to us
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2008, 12:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-most-ironic-moment-in-economic-history/50694/13 "2008-06-27T12:14:46Z")
> [@j\_espo1](#):
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> .
I’m amazed that you don’t have anything more to say on the subject, lol.
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### Author:  [@j\_espo1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/j_espo1)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2008, 12:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-most-ironic-moment-in-economic-history/50694/14 "2008-06-27T12:18:35Z")
> [@Nikuk](#):
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> I’m amazed that you don’t have anything more to say on the subject, lol.
i was gonna add that "even if we drilled we wouldnt have that oil for 20 gazillion years and :blah: etc.
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2008, 1:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-most-ironic-moment-in-economic-history/50694/15 "2008-06-27T13:04:37Z")
> [@Dr.Stevil](#):
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> sweet
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> so when do we all die? I’m going to be pretty upset if Al Gore was lying to us
December 21, 2012.
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### Author:  [@Jam](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jam)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2008, 1:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-most-ironic-moment-in-economic-history/50694/16 "2008-06-27T13:06:24Z")
and we’re fucked
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2008, 1:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-most-ironic-moment-in-economic-history/50694/17 "2008-06-27T13:07:13Z")
> [@Fry](#):
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> December 21, 2012.
which time zone?
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2008, 1:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-most-ironic-moment-in-economic-history/50694/18 "2008-06-27T13:07:31Z")
eastern standard time, most likely
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2008, 1:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-most-ironic-moment-in-economic-history/50694/19 "2008-06-27T13:08:02Z")
> [@Nikuk](#):
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> which time zone?
North.
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2008, 1:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-most-ironic-moment-in-economic-history/50694/20 "2008-06-27T13:08:59Z")
> [@Fry](#):
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> North.
Run for the border?
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