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  3x the mileage, but 10x the miles

  He is one of many super-commuting hybrid owners who get the HOV lane to themselves in CA. At highway speeds he gets 50-60 mpg. I get 20. He burns at least double the gasoline, all things considered.On California vehicles to get global warming stickers posted 1 year, 8 months ago 15 Responses

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  My neighbor's Prius pollutes more than my SUV

  He drives it 200 miles a day. Mine gets driven 100 miles a week. Which vehicle would get a better global warming score?On California vehicles to get global warming stickers posted 1 year, 8 months ago 15 Responses

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  Less power, fewer people.

  Why is the left incapable of having a reasoned conversation about energy alternatives? Large scale solar concentrators can deliver electricity at roughly double the cost of nuclear power when the worst case is applied to the end to end cost of nuclear power. A nuclear plant built 30 years ago was capable of generating an average amount of power  requiring more than 3000 acres of solar concentrators today. 4 times the size of Central Park. Peak power 7500 acres. 5 square miles of land. Power for the US? 60,000 square miles for PV. The size of the Pantanal region of South America.

  Does changing the albedo of that much land have no consequence?

  If this is really about Climate Change as opposed to the furthering of a political ideology, then you would consider the benefits of all possible solutions.

  But that isn't what AGW is really about, is it?

  You have already established that you don't want cheap power. In other words, you have decided how I should live. You already politically dominate me. I pay $.38 a kwh based upon the progressive rate scheme you support.  Who is the fascist? You shut down our local nuclear plant 20 years early based upon a Hollywood movie. Not science.

  The number of humans the planet can support is determined by our ability to adapt and solve complex problems. Not by tyrants like yourself. You come from a long line of discredited, misguided genocidal lunatics. Malthus. Sanger. Carlson. Tens of millions dead in their wake.

  So, limiting the number of people on the planet is your real goal. Are you going to start with the brown ones?

  It doesn't take much to ferret out the real motivation behind your views.

  You need to learn how to lie like Al Gore. He never admits that he wants less brown people because they absorb too much sunlight and heat the atmosphere.On What drives climate change denial? posted 1 year, 8 months ago 34 Responses

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  I like your line of thinking to a point

  Once you get to the point where everyone agrees that we really can't be sure if man has any real affect as of right now, then propose that there are a lot of really good reasons to kick the oil and coal habits (Heck, toss in cigarettes) without caring a hoot about Gorebal Warming.  Relying upon oil and coal is dirty. Sure, we have gotten a lot cleaner, but it is still dirty. Plus, we have to buy our oil from unsavory characters. Inevitably this puts us in uncomfortable positions. So let's start building nuclear plants like we really care about the climate. make electricity so cheap that everyone will buy a plug-in hybrid. SUVs if they want them. More power. Cheap power. *Clean power.

  We can have dam busting parties all over the country. Tear down the hawk-killing wind turbine eyesores.

  (This will smoke out those who really don't care about the climate, they just hate America and think everyone should live in a perpetual state of Woodstockdom. They think Burning Man should be on the UN Security Council. If Marxism and marijauna are on your top ten solutions to AGW list...you know I am talking about you.)

  *requires waste disposal, but AGW is far worse and no one will argue when they get their low electric bill.

  Sadly, this isn't about the climate.

  It is about money. "Climate Change" is the "Global Islamic Terror" of the left. They deny terrorism is an issue and see it as a cynical money grab by the Military-Inbushtrial complex...using fear to separate the slack-jawed masses from their tax dollars. Yet they are absofreakingly certain that the monster in THEIR closet is REAL!

  Despite my sarcastic tone...I am serious. We need nuclear power. Be like France.

   On What drives climate change denial? posted 1 year, 8 months ago 34 Responses

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  Arrogance and condescension

  Quit wasting time with "denier". Just say what you fink (feel-think). You fink we are Infidels. Infidels "making war" on science. Hell, we are terrorists. And anti-intellectual to boot.

  Anyone who disagreed with the Nuclear Winter "consensus" was deemed anti-intellectual. After all, "they" elected Reagan. Only the addled minded could possibly disagree with the likes of Carl Sagan when he asserted that there would be "a year without a Summer" if the Kuwaiti oil fields were to be set ablaze. Likely the ocean's phyto-plankton would die off and throw us into a death sprial.

  Why would any sane person listen to any doom scenario proposed by the self identified political left without skepticism? They have been wrong about so much in the past. Wrong and cocksure and arrogant and condescending.

  I sit here paying $.38 a kwh for electricity, absolutely certain that if AGW were truly a concern, Al Gore would be insisting that we embark upon the "moral equivalent of war" and race to build nuclear power plants. Eliminate coal and oil from the grid. Provide clean power for plug-in hybrid cars. Zero emissions for more and more miles. Cut my electric bill by 2/3. The rational know that wind and solar and geothermal and hemp oil are not the answer. I would love to give OPEC the finger.

  But sadly, AGW is not about climate change at all. It is a political movement. It is embarrassing to see so many intelligent, well meaning folks reduced to "useful idiot" status by Big Climate.On What drives climate change denial? posted 1 year, 8 months ago 34 Responses