Arnold: It's Not Easy Being Green

New West Notes ^ | 6/12/06 | Bill Bradley

[mewzilla]

Uh huh....

[Jeff Head]

"We've all seen the pictures of melting glaciers. We know the dangers of climate change. How the oceans are getting warmer, how they're rising. How agriculture can be threatened. We are long past the time when we can just talk about this problem."

Arnold playing the green card. Either he has swallowed the hook, or he is politicizing, looking for grren votes. Either way, he's going to lose a lot of votes and for good reason.

[SouthTexas]

Arnold thinks he's the Hulk?

[CPT Clay]

Read "State of Fear" written by the same guy that wrote Jurassic Park.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Arnold's just playing to the crowd - the majority of Californians in both parties believe in the Al Gore edition of reality, so he has to play along. Expect any solutions he pushes to be long on style and short on substance.

[Tanniker Smith]

Arnold: It's Not Easy Being Green

Yup, certainly is. That's why Ferrigno got that "Hulk" gig back in the late 70s instead of Arnie.

[ProCivitas]

It's important that there be some credible Pro-Ecology Republicans nationwide. Not sure what measures they should lead with, but moving toward energy independence via 'natural energy sources' would probably be a good one. Also preservation of wildlife species worldwide.

It's a roughly consensus issue among most folks, and demonstrates a sense of prudent responsibility ("stewardship")on the part of any Governors, Presidential aspirants, Senators, Parties, etc.

[Don Corleone]

R U Phishing for the liberal vote there Arnie?

[NormsRevenge]

It's not easy being green..

Where have we heard that before?

[dalereed]

Lets hope that after November he can go back to L.A. and be as green as he wants to be, just as long as he doesn't have anything to say about government!

[scooter2]

I have a hard time picturing Arnold as "Kermit the Frog".

[B Knotts]

He's not credible. California's idiotic emissions standards are contributing to higher CO2 emissions by excluding small diesels.

And the standards are based on bad science.

[NormsRevenge]

That's OK, more than a few of us here in California have a hard time swallowing that he is a Republican, much less a conservative. ;-)

[Jeff Head]

An individual can be "pro-ecology" without subscribing to the junk science of the rabid, extreme envronmentalist agenda.

Traditional conservationists are the best "pro-ecology" people you can find and they have been improving this nation, while allowing our induistrial, agricultural, and energy base to grow all along. IMHO, we should focus on continuing in that mold and avoid the "green" scene and all of its emotion, bad science, and fanaticism.

[sheana]

They are going to keep messing around until Californians are sitting in the dark, no heat or cooling. Heck in the summer we are almost there now with brown outs and the constant threat of rolling blackouts.

[ansel12]

For the Americans who's water, electric, gas, and gasoline bills all together total less than $100.00 or $150.00 a month, and live in 600 and 1200 foot dwellings, it is amusing to listen to rich people lecture about saving resources.

[O Neill]

Thank you for the photo of The Thermonator, standing tall in front of one of his Hummers...wearing well-pressed cotton garments most likely made in a Chinese sweat shop...

[William Tell]

From the article: "The former Mr. Universe has embraced the idea that California should sign no new contracts for the importation of electricity from conventional coal-fired plants, which currently supply about 15 percent of the state’s power. "

Brilliant.

Let's all look forward to having our elderly dying because there is insufficient electricity to power air conditioners. How very French.

[BlazingArizona]

Anything but admit that California's best option for generating large amounts of clean energy is nuclear. If utilities in the state can't bring themselves to build their own nukes, at least fund building more of them in Arizona, as they did already last time around.