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“Next, those of us old enough to remember driving through Gary, Indiana in the 1960s and early 70s know how much cleaner our air and water are today. Smaller gains in “cleanliness” come at greater and greater cost now (although the EPA, which wants everything to be infinitely clean, does not seem to care about that). “

You aren’t kidding. I knew people who lived or worked there, and the paint would come off of cars in about three years, and rust through in five. People who lived there had to paint their homes every three years or so, or else. And where I lived in suburban Chicago, the entire southeast sky was a smoky red glow at night, 365 days a year, until the mid-70’s.

It pisses me off that the left paints republicans / conservatives / capitalists as uncaring about the future; I posit that they actually think about it MORE (and that’s how they became wealthy); many conservatives have children too, and it seems to me that it’s always the fat cat capitalists who leave lasting legacies for others, going all the way back to Carnegie and Rockefeller.

We have been well PAST diminishing returns on the environment since the mid-80’s; hence, my rationale to reduce the size and scope of the EPA to mid-80’s levels.