The Republicans also support him

Former vice president Al Gore will launch a three-year, $300 million campaign Wednesday aimed at mobilizing Americans to push for aggressive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, a move that ranks as one of the most ambitious and costly public advocacy campaigns in U.S. history.

The new effort comes at a time when the three remaining major party presidential candidates -- Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) -- have all endorsed federal limits on greenhouse gases, virtually ensuring that the next occupant of the White House will offer a sharp break from President Bush's climate policy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...001880_pf.html

Yes, I do. On a large scale, people only do things such as this when they are forced to. It will not happen volunterily.

Yes, some people will buy hybrid/electric cars, and some people will spend the money to fit their homes with solar energy, etc. But they will be the minority. Real change will only happen when the majority submits to these sort of changes, and that will only happen when it is law.

As you may or may not know, a car today produces about 1-2% of the carbon emissions of a car produced in 1960. Yet, never during that entire 50 year period have the auto manufacturers reduced carbon emissions on their own. Instead, as regulations changed (i.e. laws), they had to make changes to their cars in order for their cars to pass emissions tests, and so they did. Do you really believe that would have happened on its own if the government still had the same regulations they had in 1960?

Another example of this is safety. Today there are so many safety regulations, that many cars produced in other countries have to be modified in order to be sold in the US and meet our strict safety standards. Without these laws, many cars being sold would be unsafe. While you may occasionally read complaints from car enthusiast magazines about how we cannot get certain vehicles because they won't pass US safety standards, Americans as a whole are better off because we have these safety standards, and tens of thousands of Americans owe their lives to the fact that we have such laws. If you have ever been in a serious car accident, you could even be one of them.

Here is where your argument goes awry. There needs to be a balance between economy and safety. The laws of physics dictates that driving a Suburban head on into a Prius makes the Suburban a safer car.

If you leave safety up to the free market responsible safety conscious people will buy the safer cars and those who chose less will eventually die off as part of Natural Selection thus making unsafe cars less profitable.

How many Hummers are being sold in comparison to the Prius? Seems to me the free market is guiding sales of economy and safety.

I said that we need Democratic leadership, which Al Gore is part of.

It will take a lot of smart people to get this country out of the sad position that MR Bush have left us with.

Are you talking about the same smart people who wear suits and have been making bad decisions all along?

Are you talking about the talking heads in washington?

Are you talking about the people who keep getting voted into office
only to continue with business as usual?

Are you talking about lying politicians?

Are you talking about the " Al Gore" described in this thread?

Hmmmmm. Such misguided faith people have.

I am saying that the Democratic offer hope, if we all thought in the negative sarcastic manner you present we would be in big trouble.

Maybe you should read this book:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-of-P...dp_kinw_strp_1

May I please remind you of your own words???

Quote (Originally Posted by Eric5273. The cutting of pollution has to be something that is legislated by the governments of the world in some sort of coordinated effort. Otherwise it is a waste of time.)

I suggest you address your statement again by answering this question. Do you honestly believe that the "the governments of the world are going to get together in some sort of coordinated effort to do anything especially something like this? :rolleyes:

Honestly Eric:.....Talk about a pipe dream realized; Not in this life... :rofl:

Is this a trick question? :rolleyes:

They already have. 90% of the countries in the world have already agreed and moved forward with this "coordinated effort":

http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/2830.php


Your question is kind of like something Stephen Colbert would ask one of his guests in his attempt to be funny and mock them. "Do you honestly believe.....?" :rofl:

Eric he likes to disagree and act superior.

Lets all try to think positively.

You're in luck. Jimmy Carter looks to be supporting Obama. Between Obama, Gore, Pelosi and Reid we should be out of this economic mess, global warming will disappear and the world will once again love America.

BTW Michelle...I'm outed so I'm out!