• Pat Sajak comes out as a Climate Change Denier
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[QUOTE=TestECull;44863452]I'd be apathetic anyway. But I'd be a bit more sympathetic to the cause if it wasn't abused so heavily to try to sell me on shitty electric cars that don't do a single thing I need in a vehicle and don't scratch a single itch I want in a vehicle. And they never will. The sound of a burbling V8, that peace-of-mind that a lazy, big inch Detroit I6 brings forth, they're irreplaceable for me. Even if it's running on eco-fuels like alcohol I [I]will[/I] have that [del]noise[/del] music in my life. The worst part about the sweeping majority of those 'green' products is that they're objectively inferior to their 'not' green counterparts. CFL light bulbs last half as long as incandescants in my room. Green cars aren't very well made, tend to be boring as all hell, are a bitch to work on and cannot haul or tow a goddamn thing. Green toilets can barely handle the 'load' presented to them. Green appliances often have to make two or three attempts at something, especially things like washing machines. It's not really very green if I have to run the same load of laundry through three times to get it as clean as the 30 year old Maytag I just replaced could do in one pass, now is it?[/QUOTE] Where the hell are you shopping that all these Eco friendly appliances suck so bad?
[QUOTE=WhollyRufus;44862793]Here are some more of his tweets: [URL="https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/468828847337512960"]https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/468828847337512960[/URL][/QUOTE] [img]http://i.imgur.com/6RJDJFT.jpg[/img] interesting
i will never watch wheel of fortune the same way ever again
[QUOTE=woolio1;44865699] A lot of that comes from industry, utilities, resource extraction, that sort of thing. You're not going to fix climate change by replacing your bulbs with CFLs or driving a Prius, no matter how hard you try. You will, however, fix it by taxing and pushing the big polluters. Clamp down on coal and oil-fired power plants, make an incentive to switch to natural gas or another domestic product like Methane. Incentivize renewables, like wind, water, tidal, solar, and geothermal. Enact higher efficiency standards for vehicles (There has to be a reason most European cars get so much better gas mileage than ours. Oil's cheap here.) [/QUOTE] well for gas, Europe uses rediculously high octane levels as well as having no ethanol requirement, this makes the gas way more volatile but requires higher refining costs also the spa really is cracking down on industry emissions, how those work is a plant will have a license to emit so much gas or waste per month and they have to prove they are below that requirement else they get massively fined or shut down till a new license can be agreed upon. currently our coal fraction is slipping but there has been massive push back from coal country who see the green movements fight against coal as a threat to their livelihood. what I dont approve of in the green movement though is the distinct lack of nuclear being an option when the U.S. is the best place for nuclear power to be viable, we have the technology, the land, and the fuel but everybody's afraid of another three mile island
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