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Originally Posted by FSETH
Yeah, the X is my wifes ride. It was her choice. I tried to talk her into a car. Don't get me wrong, I do love the X now that we have it, but I was very anti-SUV before she bought it. I never even considered owning an SUV as my personal car. I also didn't throw too much of a fit because the X5 was so safe. Knowing she was going to be driving it daily made me feel good. That outweighed the environmental factor.
Besides her X5, we are pretty good about using CFL's, recycling everything possible, HVAC, not buying plastic water bottles, etc.
I agree though that Gore and others were/are huge wasters of resources as they preach conservation.
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 you know how toxic a CFL is? you know the level of Mercury in that bad boy? That is my point exactly, people rushing out to do things (BUY things) they are told are "good" as opposed to all those "bad" ones.
Funny how US home building standards don't go up to make sure every new home is energy efficient, but you can get credits out the butt to modify yours after purchase...yeah..that doesn't seem like a scam at all.
And recycling...JOKE. Plastics are fun to recycle...
When Recycling Is Bad for the Environment | Pollution | DISCOVER Magazine
I'm all for people not being huge pigs. I'm all for airports vehicles and mass-transit vehicles being hydrogen powered. (see LAX) But making sweeping policies to create bogus "credits" and "cap & trade" is nothing more than a money making scheme that the majority of morons have assumed is somehow beneficial to something, though they can't prove what 
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Last edited by Wagner; 01-12-2010 at 08:33 PM.
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