Posted on 12/16/2009 6:22:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Never before has a US government been as serious in its warnings against the dangers of climate change as the Obama administration. But Americans are divided: Half of them regard climate protection policies as socialist, and half want to save the world. Can Obama make America go green?
There are parts of the United States where there is no real evidence of social discord, of the loathing and aggressiveness with which different groups view one another, and where no one seems to question the prevailing view.
In Las Vegas, Nevada, they build artificial waterfalls and big roads for big cars because opulence and wastefulness are part of the city's raison d'etre. Las Vegas residents have no moral qualms about their lifestyle and the excesses they see around them. Oil and water have always come from somewhere, they reason, so why should that stop? It makes perfect sense that, in Washington, Nevada's senators and lobbyists would champion the causes important to their voters: growth, employment and progress -- all without taxes or regulation. From their perspective, there is no good reason why rivers in the desert should ever run dry.
Berkeley, California, is a similar kind of place, a city where everyone has more or the less the same convictions -- the only difference being that Berkeley's residents have very different ideas than the people in Las Vegas.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
Germans get an eyeful when they get to travel around the USA. They can’t conceive of so vast and varied a place. They can’t understand how it works to inhabit one continent with one language (kinda sort-of).
No. I’ll drive what I want, when I want, whenever I want.
Screw anyone that attempts to stop me.
Americans are divided: Half of them regard climate protection policies as socialist, and half want to save the world.No problem -- the United States should ban all German auto imports. Problem solved, Der Spiegel...
Germany is the vision of rat energy Utopia. Germany has triple our electricity rates and gas prices. Solar panel use is high in Germany despite its location. The German government is now subsidizing the industries most impacted by the high energy taxes.
The left believes very high levels of energy taxation will save the planet. All evidence suggests that high energy taxes will only bring misery. Europe has had very high gas taxes for 25 years or more. Is Europe any closer to an oil substitute than any other country?
Greenism amounts to conversion by the sword to an alien religion. I ain’t no Green dhimmi and neither are any of my friends.
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