"I saw what honestly looked like an apocalyptic disaster, almost like the end of the world," he said, describing seeing entire jungle lakes filled with oil and children walking barefoot on oil-covered roads.
Granted, Paul made a sort of decent showing near the close of the night talking about cannabis oil and children with seizures, but that's not going to move the needle far enough to get him through Iowa.
The next stage is that some owners will ban people from swimming, on the grounds that all that sweat, suntan oil and children's pee will ruin the Ph balance.
"How can George Bush and Dick Cheney question the vice president's record when it was George Bush who prioritized big oil over children's health and if Dick Cheney had had his way, we wouldn't have Head Start?" asked Kym Spell, a Gore spokeswoman.
"In the 1950s after world war two the government issued a dose of cod liver oil to children every day to supplement their diets with a good source of vitamin D, but it was later thought to be unnecessary.
According to a report in Time magazine using the Everyday Price Index, in 2011 the official Consumer Price Index rose 2.9 percent, but the cost of certain basic necessities rose much more: meat and milk rose more than 9 percent; coffee, 19 percent; peanut butter, 27 percent; heating oil, 18 percent; children's clothes for boys, 6 percent, and for girls, 9 percent.
They go into rural schools and pour boiling oil over children's clenched hands to permanently seal them into the symbolic fist of ZANU-PF, his party.
In Nigeria, the world's fifth-largest oil exporter, children and families continue to go hungry in many areas of the country.
On a recent morning, Udall was at a Muslim charity not far from her Mesa home, overseeing an assembly line of volunteers packing boxes with rice, beans, cooking oil and children's clothing for shipment to Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
Unless this crisis in the Gulf finally becomes the wake-up call that signals a new national commitment to end our dependence on oil, our children may now be smelling their future.
