5salive - I agree with you and you make sense to me, but please read this. i posted this on the corresponding senate bill:
Environmentalists AND opponents to the Global Warming Theory PLEASE READ. You are both at fault and it's ruining our state's livlihood..
Our state legislators really need to get some perspective on this green house gas reduction crusade they are on. The question that needs to be asked of them is "what is the ultimate goal in trying to reduce green house gas emissions?" It sounds over-simplified, but really it needs to be asked. Even if they succeeded in ELIMINATING carbon emissions, how will we even know if it had any impact whatsoever?
Will we all of a sudden notice that it's cooler outside? Will we see the polar ice caps start to grow again? Will we be able to go outside and tell that the air is cleaner and now we can breathe? Or will we simply be able to say that we feel really good about ourselves because we've done what we think is helping with global warming? And if we ever arrive at this day in time, was it worth it to stifle business and economic development?
On the other side of the issue - all of you angry people out there still trying to argue that global warming is a myth or that people are crazy for believing in global warming or that it is not a man-made phenomenon - PLEASE STOP! It's a pointless argument! you very well could be right. I might even agree with you, but the fact is that you will never prove it and you will never convince those that believe, that it's not true. You will spend all your energy, time and money arguing over it.... trying to prove your point and in the end all you will be left with is MORE ANGER and less power. While you are arguing over the existance of global warming, environmentalists are passing laws to get their way while completely ignoring the impacts they have on business and state spending.
Whether or not global warming is real or not - IS NOT THE POINT. The solution - and the only solution - is to stop burning fossil fuels. In doing so we will 1) get rid of the gas emissions that environmentalists want eliminated and 2) we will acheive independence of foriegn oil. EVERYONE WINS.
And to all of you who like to hate the oil companies. You need to stop. If any of us hope to ever become independent of oil, we are going to need the cooperation of the oil companies. Yes, you heard me. They are not just going to roll over and die because we don't want to use oil. They are too big, rich and powerful to just walk away from the game. We need to start thinking of them as ENERGY companies, not oil companies. They have the infrastructure, the money and the resources to create alternative forms of energy and they will need to be the owners of new energy. This might infuriate some of you, but it's the truth. You can either spend your life hating them, or working with them on a solution.
we don't need laws FORCING business and individuals to reduce emissions and we don't need to argue over the validity of global warming. We need cooperative solutions from the public and private sectors on how to effectively make our world operate on CLEAN and RENEWABLE energy. We need solutions to effectively convert existing cars over to clean energy and not just brand new cars. We need to create ways to convert the semi-trucks that transport our goods, over to clean energy as well as airplanes. We need these things so that we don't have to wait until everyone out there can own a new Chevy Volt before we get clean air and oil independence.
I know some of you are saying it can't be done, but we need to stop saying "can't". we put people on the moon, build retractable roofs on baseball stadiums so millionaires don't get wet while they play baseball, we build skyscrapers like they are lego kits, we have satelites in space that can see you sitting on your couch at home.... we CAN do this.