Environmental rollbacks in the works

http://mankatofreepress.com/latestnews/x856148395/Environmental-rollbacks-in-the-works

Coal and nuclear - two sides of the same right wing coin.

have a nuclear waste disposal facility built in his back yard behind his home, I'm sure?

Vote with your *wallets* people!

If you buy a gasoline powered car -- then we'll be dependent on foreign oil forever.
==> If you buy an electric car -- you are a part of the solution, not part of the problem.

If you buy electricity without demanding that part or all of it be renewable sources then you are part of the problem.
==> Demand that your electric utility provide a renewable energy option if they don't already... and choose that plan even if it costs you a little bit more.
====> I'm no saint but I get my electricity from 100% Texas Wind Energy. I pay an extra 1.3 cents per kilowatt hour (it varies due to the weird rate structure here in TX) but I am willing to pay the extra cost in order to do my part to increase renewable energy.

If you buy a product that is made in China (and an American made alternative exists) then you are part of the problem with massive unemployment here in the USA.
==> Buy American. If there isn't an American made product then buy a used one and fix it up or change your plans.

If you buy a product or service from a company that is anti-gay then you are part of the problem of intolerance in this country.
==> Write letters, make a youtube video, rant on the street corner... DO SOMETHING! We are all God's children: do you honestly think that God made a *mistake* with 10% of the people on this planet?!?

Etc. Etc. Etc.

Consumers have the power to demand whatever the idiot politicians want to deny us. Use your power. Stop being a limp noodle... stand up for your rights, stand up to power!

There is a hard limit to what voluntary participation in green energy promotion can do since the problem is mostly embedded in the structure of our energy generation and delivery system. When idiot Republican politicians push nuclear and coal they are crowding out development of renewable energy sources and energy efficiency measures.

That process is clearly demonstrated in the OP.

I'm just not at your intellectual level, obviously. I have this foolish notion that if NO customers buy gasoline cars, the oil companies will lose business, their levels of pollution will go down (because ~30% to 35% of the GHG emissions are is from transportation. If all consumers in all the other segments end or drastically reduce their oil/gas/diesel/fuel oil usage then the levels of CO2 and other deadly pollutants will go down to manageable levels (ones that the environment might even be able to tolerate).

It's kinda like if every human on the planet stopped buying diet sodas. The companies would be forced to stop making them. But the government made no rules about that, put no regulations, added no "big gubmint" taxes at all. If they're making no money doing a thing (whatever it is) they will eventually stop (or go out of business).

In my apparently flawed view, the consumer has *all* the power to affect change. Therefore, the politicians can remove all the regulations they want, they can give all the tax breaks for making diet soda they want. If no consumer is buying diet soda then the company will either stop making it or go out of business.

But that's just my unintelligent assessment of the power of consumers to force companies to change. Please enlighten me on how a company will thrive when nobody is buying the dirty/polluting/environmentally harmful/wasteful/or otherwise bad products that they want to sell.

...for 20 fucking years.

See http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE49Q2I820081027">World can halt fossil fuel use by 2090 and http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/reports/energyrevolutionreport">The EnergyREvolution.

Some people are going to try to stuff that coin into every environmental gumball machine they can, and scream "REPUBLICAN!" if anyone calls them on the fallacy.

--d!

For 20 years. They actually give us 40 years to get off of coal. Fun.