Originally posted by lazs2
Yep... nothing wrong with "exploring alternative fuels" that is the way it should be.
In the meantime... governments have created nothing except sink holes for tax money. They have slowed/stoped the building of nuke power plants.... they have stopped the exploration of oil to make us less dependent on foriegn oil... They have mandated junk science environmental laws that have often caused grave harm to the environment or... done nothing... they have created endangered species lists that are 90% insects.
lazs
There it is, then. A distrust of government and regulation, to the point of reducing things to absurdity.
I happen to think that things like the Clean Water Act in '77 (
http://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/fwatrpo.html) and the clean air act - mainly in 1990 with amendments in 97 (
http://www.epa.gov/oar/oaqps/peg_caa/pegcaa03.html) have radically improved the fishing and waterways of the country. So have technological improvements in filtering harmful chemicals.
Do you guys think the events in Erin Brockovich didn't actually happen? Do you think Monsanto didn't actually cause massive cancer and birth defects across an entire generation of the people of Anniston, Alabama? (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto#As_Defendant)
If warming is due to CO2, and there can be regulation or free market solutions to clean the air - shouldn't we try and promote them? Saying that we can't impact industry is the same argument that big oil and big chemical use against ALL regulation.
For all of you who have benefited from clean fishing lakes and well water that didn't make your kids sick, you have some form of regulation to thank for this. The old saying is that a republican is just a democrat that hasn't needed a trial lawyer yet, is probably true. What confounds me is the level of rhetoric against a film that doesnt say Katrina was caused by global warming, doesn't even insinuate it, doesn't do anything but point out that rising planetary temps and ice cap melting will raise the ocean levels and that may have some effect 20-40 years from now.
I guess with over 44% of the American public thinking that the rapture will occur within THEIR lifetimes, nobody cares anymore. Thankfully for us, people in 1977 and 1990 at the EPA thought 'hey, maybe the planet does need some protection'.
Since I don't know any milionares (personally) who play AH, I would suspect most people here count as the little guy. I wonder sometimes why they purposely rail against anything which is in their interest. Books have been written about the 'gun rack Republicans', guys who consistently vote against their own financial and health well being. Wake up and at least LOOK who is behind the research on your side. And ask yourself, are these guys looking out for people like me?