Quote Originally Posted by RPETER65
doesn't it make more sense in putting that money into the development of alternative energy that will actually work. Making requirements of industry that is going to put many people out of work makes know sense to me. Let's proceed with a reasonable implementations that will allow those that are performing jobs that will eventionally be lost to transition into the jobs the new forms of energy will provide. The transportation industry is another one, most of the push in transportation is fuel emissions what incentives to develope a new source of fuels that make sense, seems to me incentives are more attracting than mandates.
You write that and then go on to denigrate liberals in your usual style.

The point you are missing is that what you wrote is exactly what liberals were advocating starting in earnest about 40 years ago but it's the right-wing and people such as yourself that have denied, obfuscated and tried to stifle all of that with the result that it's now exponentially harder to do.

A more gradual transition and incentives to the private sector to fund research starting say, after the oil-shock of the early 70s would be paying dividends now but due to the way Conservatives have turned pollution into a political argument and demonised anybody that didn't kow-tow to big oil we are now stuck dealing with a legacy of intransigence and greed and general bullshit.

Quote Originally Posted by MrG
Well, talk about covering your ass when the grandkids ask "What did you do to help save the earth for us?"
He'll say he read Leviticus and prayed that gay marriage didn't cause a plague of frogs to eat all the grain stored in Carson's Egyptian silos or something like that.