Global Warming/Climate Change is a fact and there is good money to be made in transitioning to Energy Independence via alternative methods. I never understood why this is looked down upon. It should be considered a wonderful money making enterprise with the positive benefit of mitigating detrimental effects to our environment.
Hippies have it wrong as do Global Warming deniers.
Global Warming/Climate Change or whatever the politically correct term at the moment is, is generally to be accepted as fact by the US Government and various global groups as something that is contributed to by human activity, whether it be driving your car or firing up a factory.
However, the solutions put forth, if you can call them that, are rather puzzling................
..Heavily tax and regulate manufacturers and other polluters here so they can go abroad to places such as China, Indonesia, and Vietnam where they can pretty much do what they want. Have you seen the air quality in many of those cities over there, as well as how dirty their water is? China is now the biggest market for new auto purchases.
The US is still receiving nearly 1 million legal and illegal immigrants into the country each year, most of them unskilled, non-white, and coming from Third World nations. Does this not put an extra burden on our power grid as well as more clogging of our roads? I am also sure that 1 million new jobs are being created in the US each year.
Electric and Hybrid cars? Stupid. The average personal vehicle weights in excess of 4000 pounds and transports a scant tenth of its weight in people. Combined with materials and cost for maintenance, it is very inefficient. In fact, the disposal for some of the battery packs for hybrid vehicles can be a killer for the environment. Let us not forget the extra burden(along with more and more people coming in) plugging in a GODDAMNED CAR into an outlet puts on the power grid. The solution? Politically expedient "solutions" such as wind farms and solar energy that if they had had any merit, would have been in effect decades ago.