Y'know, I just thought I'd point something out here, that every person calling other people "Leftists", "Environmental Weirdos", "Socialists", and everything else seems to be missing entirely.
Any time a new technology is brought online, it must be designed, produced, marketed, and sold.
If we go to electric cars, plants will produce them, people will have jobs, engineers will be working night and day, electric "filling" stations will pop up, etc.
Just because a business becomes more "environmentally friendly" doesn't mean they say goodbye to profits. I mean really, wake up people.
If higher efficiency furnaces and air-conditioners become regulation, they have to be built and sold.
Higher R-factor insulation has spawned lots of new technology in the insulation business.
Folks, remember, just because it's environmentally sound, doesn't mean you can't make a buck off of it. It just means you have to "think outside the box", and a lot of times, that seems to be too much for people who would rather sit around reading the Wall Street Journal, and trying to maintain the status quo.
Society always has been, and will always continue to be, a dynamic process.
I've seen a hell of a lot of regulation in my life so far, in lots of different fields, and there always seems to be a bunch of rich capitalists around who adapt very nicely, and make a ton of money off of the new way of thinking.
Well, I won't go on and on like I usually do. Just remember, being environmentally friendly can make you a hell of a lot of money. It doesn't mean you resign yourself, and are forcing others, to live dressed in rags in a tent in the woods.
Let's stop acting silly about all this, and figure out how to use the new consciousness to make some damn money. That, my friends, is the TRUE "American Way."
Mk
