Got this interesting comment from my favorite lefty, Thoughtful Rob at Emphasis Added, regarding the Hummer's net eco-superiority to the Prius:
That's genuinely interesting. Here in Seattle, it feels like every other car on the road is a Prius. It's a little much, even for an otherwise-smug and green liberal like yours truly.
I read something similar about Brazil, which now uses biofuels for something like 40% of its power. Apparently the damage done to the soil and the environment in growing and refining the plant matter is completely obliterating the surrounding ecology, at a much greater financial cost than fossil fuels. No such thing as a free lunch as far as mother Earth is concerned. Sign me up for a solar car! (emphasis added - I just had to say that)
Me, too. Well, I suspect a solar car will never haul a load of pressure treated lumber up a hill, but I'll take Rob's point. Read this month's National Geographic about declining fish stocks and the real, actual, urgent and world-wide problem of stupid over fishing and ask yourself why does Chicken Little always, always, always squawk about the wrong things.
Oh, and by the way, the solution to over fishing is obvious and just needs a little more R&D: fish farming. Yes, I know there are problems with it now, but, no, they are not insoluble. I'd bet $100 (my maximum bet for anything) that 1% of the budget proposed for the dubious problem of global warming would solve over-fishing in 10 years or less. And cheap large-scale power would solve salt water intrusion and a whole bunch of other problems by making desalinization practicable -- and it would also kick the damn Arabs to the curb, along with the Persians, newly-Commie-ized Venezuelans, and while we're at it the no-friends-of-ours Mexicans where they belong.
So what is our friggin' problem?
cheap large-scale power would solve salt water intrusion and a whole bunch of other problems by making desalinization practicable
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