Good point, and this is why we do need to add to our regulations on
emissions.
but we need to do so in a more intelligent fashion.
The end result of our efforts, have been to drive manufacturing out of the
United States and into third world countries that have NO such regulations
and
are polluting at incredible rates. Do we feel better about ourselves if our
own
hands are not dirty but our neighbors are? Is hiring someone else to commit
a
murder for you better than doing it yourself? We share the same air and
water with
the rest of the planet and need to look at the bigger picture when we
create our
regulations.
A tiny fraction of the scamulous money we are just handing out willy nilly
would have re-tooled every auto plant in America to produce cleaner, more
efficient
cars. I doubt we will ever see the money Chrysler got again, and a lesser
amount would
have retooled everyone. At least we would have gotten something lasting for
our money.
We cannot fool ourselves into thinking any politician has our back on this
issue. Creation
of taxes to address this problem will just lead to more political greed and
payoffs, but no
actual solution to the problem. We should have put our money into fixing
the problem
rather than relying entirely on the factory owners to absorb the costs. We
have lost millions
of jobs and have not helped the environment one iota.
The top politician, put up as an expert on this topic is Al Gore. Obama has
stated that he
is his go to guy on these issues. Gore himself still flies around in the
least efficient private jet
in the skies, (you would think after he got the bad press he would have
sold it) bought one
clean car but has never been seen in anything other than SUV's. He accepts
tobacco
subsidies intended for poor farmers, to not grow tobacco on his family land
(As if he would take
up farming tobacco if the money were cut off) and on that same land
operates a mining
operation with heavy pollution. He just built a massive indoor pool that
draws more energy than
12 houses just to heat it. He says all this is OK though because he buys
"carbon credits" from
a company he owns part of. He shifts money from his left pocket to his
right pocket in other words.
So he can live as wastefully as anyone we know, but preach to us
about how we live. He wants new taxes on us as a punishment for our
wasteful lives, that will
hurt the poor far more than the wealthy. He left office worth less than a
half million dollars and
is worth over 200 million today, just a few years later. Where did the
sudden massive wealth come
from? Not his book, and certainly not his documentary he was supposed to
donate any proceeds from,
so where did he get it? Certainly not from corporations he is promoting the
agenda of, right? This
is where our trust is placed? This guy will instruct the President? We are
in trouble.
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