Reading through my sources today, I found a bit of encouraging news.  In a UPI article, this green nuggett appeared.

"ENERGY COMPANIES PREPARE FOR DEMOCRATS

Energy companies are preparing for the coming Democratic majority in the U.S. Congress by beginning a push for their favored approaches to global warming. Companies like the major oil and power producers would prefer national curbs on greenhouse gases, instead of a state-by-state approach, the Washington Post reported. "We have to deal with greenhouse gases," John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil Co., told the National Press Club recently. "From Shell's point of view, the debate is over. When 98 percent of scientists agree, who is Shell to say, 'Let's debate the science'?" Hofmeister and James Rogers, head of Duke Power, say they would prefer caps on greenhouse gas emissions that would allow companies to trade credits. Others favor a tax on carbon dioxide emissions.

Even Exxon, the company most prominently known as a global warming skeptic, is considering eliminating funding to a think tank devoted to trying to undercut climate change research, the newspaper said."  (UPI Nov. 25, 2006 at 12:37AM)

A local philospher once told me many years ago that, "It's not what you say that counts, it's how you say it."  Maybe we should modify this a little and say "It's not what you say that counts, its how many times you say it."