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   Antidote said, over 3 years ago

   Man-made climate change or not, we should do all we can to 1) clean up our mess 2) use cleaner/more efficient energy 3) Invest in R&D to become leaders in the field

   The blame game seems to me like a big distraction.
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   benbrilling said, over 3 years ago

   While we’re screaming at each other China is increasing its windmill production. Another US technology race lost.
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   motivemagus said, over 3 years ago

   And Germany and Japan have become the leaders in solar power technology which we innovated. And which Reagan killed research for. Sigh.
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   d_legendary1 said, over 3 years ago

   ^^Actually Ben the Chinese are building coal factories at an alarming rate. And we are the last people they are gonna listen to. After all we were burning coal since the industrial revolution. Who are we to tell anyone else they can’t do it?

   ^Very true Magus. Carter placed solar panels on top of the white house to try and start the independence from foreign oil and when Reagan got elected he took those bad boys down.
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   churchillwasright said, over 3 years ago

   Let me remind my liberal friends that it is your fellow liberals that won’t allow windfarms where it will spoil their view in Hyannis Port, or allow solar farms in the desert because if will interfere in the mating habit of some kind of bug.

   There is nothing wrong with tax credits/incentives or even a full fledged Manhattan Project to find a brand new, viable form of energy. But to simply pass legislation to redistribute wealth, increase the cost of existing energy and decrease our wealth and/or ship it overseas for what all experts say will be a negligible impact on the environment is just plain stupid. But it will make some feel warm and fuzzy inside thinking they’ve done something.
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   kikidding said, over 3 years ago

   I don’t believe in global warming! rubish…
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   motivemagus said, over 3 years ago

   churchill, I was among those who objected to the banning of the windmills (I live in Massachusetts). Don’t blame the liberals, blame the property owners in that part of the Cape. And your point on redistribution of wealth misses the point and is irrelevant, since no one sensible is suggesting anything of the kind. For the past thirty years, Democrats have tried to encourage research and have provided tax credits – not even that much – and the Republicans have immediately pulled the plug on both, being funded by oil dollars. legendary is right; Reagan ripped off the solar panels almost immediately, which is really obnoxious when you think about it – it saved the American people money, didn’t destroy the view, and no one even had to look at it. He did it as a symbol. A bad one.
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   Harleyquinn said, over 3 years ago

   http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34242705/
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   comyics said, over 3 years ago

   Maybe if the people in America work together, since America is accumulated of various origins, backgrounds, then maybe drooling of foreign countries wont seem so, jump to, mentality.
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    Radish said, over 3 years ago

    Its to late, were all doomed.
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    C. A. Brobst said, over 3 years ago

    Save the planet, don’t buy Chinese junk, you know, anything at Walmart.
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    O'Don said, over 3 years ago

    The sky is falling = alarmists. The seas are rising = realists.
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    parker5oh book'em dano said, over 3 years ago

    antidote - cool avatar
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    Harleyquinn said, over 3 years ago

    http://tinyurl.com/d4zayx
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    Bruce4671 said, over 3 years ago

    Who in their right mind would not want to: clean up their mess, develope cleaner tech and invest in same for the future?

    Power must be produed “cheaply” in order to be able to “afford” the research and development of this new clean energy source. You have to be able to run the infrastructure and you can’t shut down the current source or energy while you develope the next one.
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