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  mass transit

  To be efficient mass transit needs to be more fully utilized.  Too many buses and trains run on empty (no passengers or few passengers).  The taxes necessary to make mass transit viable would be much less if people adjusted their lifestyles to use mass transit.  Another problem with mass transit is the separate budgeting for capital outlay and operations.  Our local light rail system is adding a not much need and very expensive tunnel under the river when they do not have enough funds to operate existing routes. To make this a sound conservation practice requires greater use of existing routes before investing in routes that are detrimental to the environment. Marketing mass transit to the masses is the only way to make it true to name.
  Another much overlooked conservation measure is walking to get to places less than 5 miles away from home.  Walking also reduces the resources needed for health care and weight reduction programs.  Walking also slows the individual down enough to become aware of the earth as a living, breathing organism.
  

  Bob loves you means he is doing all that he can for the less fortunate and the earth.

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  reduction of carbon emissions

  Taxes alone are not enough to get the job done. We need requirements of manufactures that are meaningful in light of current technologies.  There is no excuse for producing the same old machines, when we have at hand ways to get there without using half as much fossil fuel.  During WWII we replaced natural rubber with synthetic rubber in a short time.  We can replace fossil fuels with alternates in a short time.  Some of these may just be ideas in the minds of scientists now.  
  First I advocate conservation by every person. We could start in our yards.  Get rid of grass!  Use native plants that do not require water and fertilizer. Plan trips to the store to make fewer.
  Get rid of small engine equipment.  Exercise more.
  Do yard work by hand, the old fashioned way. Buy energy efficient appliances. Buy vehicles that get at least twice the mileage of your old vehicle when you trade in.  

  Second create new technologies and invest in the manufacturing processes to make them available at reasonable cost. Solar roofs, plug in cars, smaller commuter cars, and many other innovations.
  Let's turn every yard into a bio-mass production facitilty with hydrgen produced by the son.

  Bob loves you means he is doing all that he can for the less fortunate and the earth.

  On Why carbon taxes trump cap-and-trade posted 2 years, 9 months ago 18 Responses