<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for An interview with Joe Biden about energy and the environment]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by racc http://www.grist.org/article/biden/ Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:41:48 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/biden/1 Show Leadership by Driving Less

Regardless of the gas milage, each new car in China and India will increase GHG emissions, both in its use and construction. We must show leadership by improving transit and cycling and driving much less. Even if every new car in China and India gets 40 mpg, we are all in a lot of trouble if only a fraction of the population in China and India start driving.

Taking transit and riding a bike must become the new status symbols.

From Time, Coming Soon: The $2,500 Car:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1653432, ...

Kant of Tata Motors says he's sick of going to parties in India and in the West and listening to "these rich people ask about congestion and pollution and global warming. I ask them, 'Sir, will you stop using your car and start taking the bus?'


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Regardless of the gas milage, each new car in China and India will increase GHG emissions, both in its use and construction. We must show leadership by improving transit and cycling and driving much less. Even if every new car in China and India gets 40 mpg, we are all in a lot of trouble if only a fraction of the population in China and India start driving.

Taking transit and riding a bike must become the new status symbols.

From Time, Coming Soon: The $2,500 Car:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1653432, ...

Kant of Tata Motors says he's sick of going to parties in India and in the West and listening to "these rich people ask about congestion and pollution and global warming. I ask them, 'Sir, will you stop using your car and start taking the bus?'


]]> Comment #2 by amuller http://www.grist.org/article/biden/ Sun, 30 Sep 2007 14:37:42 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/biden/2 Biden .....

From the standpoint of an environmental activist in Delaware, Biden has been bad news.  Yes, his votes on national issues, as logged by the LCV, aren't too bad.  But on the problems plaguing Delaware---raw sewage dumping, air pollution, water pollution, massive toxic dumping---he's not there.

Alan Muller
Green Delaware

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From the standpoint of an environmental activist in Delaware, Biden has been bad news.  Yes, his votes on national issues, as logged by the LCV, aren't too bad.  But on the problems plaguing Delaware---raw sewage dumping, air pollution, water pollution, massive toxic dumping---he's not there.

Alan Muller
Green Delaware

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