Global Warming

That's my shocked face.

 

Honestly I think you've about lost it over this Trump stuff during the past few months.

 

I don't see this changing too much either way. Technology is still going to get more out of less energy and keep driving emissions down.

The new tractor I'm about to buy will still be Tier 4 and all of the other stuff isn't likely to roll back.

 

Shit, I don't think I'm the first person to basically say that to you on here.

 

Cool. Have a good one.

 

Oh, I think we've gone past going back on some things, but not on others. Automakers have already appealed to having mpg standards lowered. I'm sure they'll eventually get that.

Stopping the drive to reduce oil dependency, a finite resource, is just puzzling to me. It's bad for national security. Renewables/green energy is the future. Going back is like outlawing Blu-ray/Video on Demand and endorsing VCRs.

 

I've never been one to be concerned with "what everyone else says." This isn't personal, by any means. I'm still the same person I've always been. I'm not going to change that for anyone or any situation.

Plus, I hate traitors. Just watch and wait, and you'll see what I mean.

 

Obama...going through Congress...to get something done.

That's rich.

 

Who's saying this stops green. If the market(people) demand and want it, that's going to win out.

The technology on a lot of renewable energy is increasing rapidly and will only continue to do so with the Paris deal or not.

 

That's the issue. The govt is pushing for us to go back. Being a market guy, that should have you up in arms.

 

Who said the concession necessarily has to come on the climate deal. But since the agreement is toothless and non binding and only requires some of the biggest polluters to simply give it their best effort, I can see why the US leaving will kill the planet.

 

How? Did the lead executive leaving an executive agreement changes make pursuing green/renewable energy illegal?

 

Coal and oil are more subsidized than solar.

 

All government subsidies should be eliminated. All.

 

You realize that would trigger famines?

 

I have a feeling the people you're talking to don't really care as long as govt gets its comeuppance.

 

Only the Sith deal in absolutes.


Life lessons from Star Wars.

 

Would we have made it to the moon without gov't support?

Would we have won WWI & WWII relying only on the private sector?

Would the private sector have developed the atomic bomb before Germany? How about nuclear power?

Did the private sector alone bring east Tennessee out of its backwoods hillbilly reality? Did they bring flood control?

Would the private sector have risked completely funding the Hoover Dam that brought electricity and irrigation to an area that feeds a good portion of America?

Would you be able to get to Myrtle Beach or a Gulf beach in Florida in hours instead of days today if we had waited on the private sector?

Thanks govt, you bastard.