AR wrote:Monker calling you out on the climate change thing politely.
You say humans are doing more damage in a few decades than millions of years of natural change. I say that is up for debate. Not completely disputing it, just not saying it is something we should tax ourselves to death over. (In the U.S. anyway)
No, that's not what I said. I said, "What is happening in the climate today is it is warming in a matter of DECADES what SHOULD take millions of years. " I did not say "a few" or "damage".
It is NOT up for debate. The planet has a natural carbon cycle. I'm not going to get into attempting to explain that. But, humans interrupt that natural cycle by burning carbon that has been stored for millions of years and creating CO2. When oil and coal are burned for human fuel, it releases CO2 that was STORED for millions of years.
Please give me your sample size of CO2 emissions within a couple of decades and the exact damage that has been done compared to the natural change of climate.
I telework (home office) several days a week and don't have to drive my car and when I go to the office I carpool. I do my part. Can you say the same?
The entire carbon footprint thing and taxing products that are too high, really solves NOTHING. I have never advocated for a carbon tax...all it does is makes things more expensive. I do believe that gas should have a huge tax to make electric cars more desired, and such. But, I'm just throwing something out there.
IMO, pushing for electric cars should be a priority...and I think it is a nation security issue to get us out of the middle east. Then finding alternative fuels to coal and oil for power plants is another priority. Those two things alone are over half of the CO2 the US produces. Then industry could have incentives to convert to electric...which is another 1/3. Once power plants are off fossil fuel, anything that uses the electric grid is carbon free.,
And, I'm not critiquing you for doing whatever you think is right. But, if you had an electric car, it wouldn't matter how much you drive it. All it would take for most people to get an electric car is for gas prices to jump to $5/gallon...then everybody would want one and it would change the way cars are made. Bring in demand, competition, the price will lower and you won't need to spend $50,000 for a Tesla.
As for me, I have a flex fuel car where I use E85 almost exclusively.