[dufekin]

"Global warming" is just a bizarre synonym for "post-Stone-Age economy." Germany wants America to cut its economy by 25% (or more) through excessive taxation. France probably wants more like 35%, so I'm sure President-designate Kerry both will oblige and will not oblige simultaneously and without contradiction.

[pepsionice]

Lets talk about Herr Trittin now. This is the dope who came into the Energy department with a hacksaw and was going to take down all nuclear power plants within five years. Only after the media examined his plan and said it would bring brown-outs...did Schroeder have guts to call him down. When he came out with the can deposit...and the stores across the entire country said that the plan was only 50 percent ready to go...he didn't care...onward. Stores have lost money, as have consumers. Trittin is the biggest fool in Germany today. When they invite him onto talk shows...every question has to be reshaped in order to avoid to make him look like a fool. The public is waiting for one reporter, just one reporter, to take this fool down. No one gets the chance. So when he makes a bold statement like this to Americans and talks about coming to the US...and will likely have to do at least one press interview...perhaps American reporters can finally ask the right questions and expose him as the fool he really is.