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Originally Posted by Wagner
 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...
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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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Will you just knock it off with the common sense already. Green activists believe those against these green measures are dumping our toxic waste in our backyards. I'm willing to bet most of us on the Conservative side are some of the most consciences people on the planet. it's called personal responsibility which applies to every aspect of life. We preach personal responsibility and are ridiculed by those on the left.
Their message is you need the government in your lives because you can't think or do things on your own. With that said it makes sense that they want everything related to the environment mandated by the government. Besides, if people were given more freedom in their lives what role would be left for our government? Possibly protecting those rights and freedoms? There's a concept.
One clarification. When I say "Conservative" I don't mean "Republican",