> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Klaus Stock > Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 12:18 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: An Inconvenient Truth > > > Let's look at the automobiles. Big trucks, such as semi's and dump > trucks, > > Why always automobiles? They are *not* the biggest source of air pollution > (even though everybody tries to tell us so).
I chose it because it was easy to discuss straightforwardly and high profile. I wanted to point out how hard it is to cut back 25% by looking at the effects of eliminating well known problems, like SUVs. > While everybody wonders why the automobile industry cannot built the > ececonmic cars which have been promised 20 years ago, oeverybody also > wants increasingly more comfort and safety from cars. > Yup, that's the price we have to pay for having a free market economy, > and not living in a communist state :-). Or the price of refusing to pass practical laws. If we had a $4.00/gal tax on gas for the last 20 years, then the SUV phenomena wouldn't have been. >Funny things about the communist coutries (and othe rless >developed countries) is that our industry finally found a place where to >use > their manufacturing tools. Great. While we try to save on CO2, our > industry supplies the chinese with 25 year old car models. They are not as far along the industrialization curve, and are not as rich. I'll agree that a treaty that eliminates the main sources of growth in greenhouse gases is not very practical. > C'mon...the Greens told us for 30 years that nuclear power is evil. And, I've argued with them for 30 years. It's tragic, in the classical sense, that the main impact of environmental groups on global warming has been to increase it. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
