[ProtectOurFreedom]

What a wonderful future. Federal "thermostat regulations" requiring you to not heat your house warmer than 68F in winter or cool it below 86F in summer, 55 mph speed limits, complete bans on SUVs and light trucks, parking fees at your office building to force you into carpools, carbon taxes on your airline tickets, forced shutdowns of energy intensive leisure industries like snow skiing, snowmobiles, water skiing and personal watercraft, etc., etc. And all of these weak U.S. efforts that are nothing but nibbling at the edge of the problem will be completely negated by less than a decades growth of the population in India.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

But, of course, these Elitists in the Business world as well as in the Political world will NEVER bike to work as they would have all the peons to do - eventually.

This is 10 Business people obviously bribed in some way to go along with this baloney.

Where are the courageous 10,000 business people who can unite and call this what it is a - gargantuan hoax!

[CORedneck]

Not this bulls**t again ! I hated 55 mph speed limit. I remember during the Carter years due to energy cost and admonishment from Carter, my parents kept the house at 60 degree during the Winter. I hated the Winter due to freezing my butt off !

I remember when the thermostats could not go lower than 78 degrees but yet, companies expected you to dress nice with the long sleeve dress shirts, ties, etc. In fact the facility I work at, the director expects his people who sit near him to wear long sleeve shirts with ties, dark colored dress slacks even during 100 degree F days.

[Redbob]

"What a wonderful future. Federal "thermostat regulations" requiring you to not heat your house warmer than 68F in winter or cool it below 86F in summer, 55 mph speed limits, complete bans on SUVs and light trucks, parking fees at your office building to force you into carpools,..."

We tried all this crap back in the '70s;
it didn't work then and it certainly won't work now.

All that "conservation" B.S. did was to ease supplies, so that prices dropped, and consumption headed back upward.

Meanwhile, the DOT here in Texas (and elswhere no doubt) is whining that, because of all the fuel-eficient cars on the road, gasoline tax revenues are down, so they want a rate increase!
Poor babies!