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ROFL! Clever, I love it. I live in an area where driving less is simply not an option. Most of america, despite what you see on tv, is not end to end cities, chock full of busses, trains and other means of transportation. The majority of us live in rural areas. We are also a very LARGE nation, not exactly easy to hop on a horse or bike and get to where you have to go. As for wind farming. I am all for it on a local scale. I think if a person can erect a windmill and generate their own power and sell the excess back on to the grid, great, more power to them. If a twon or city has fuond a way to do this feasbaly, again, go for it. But there was talk of a large scale plan her to erect a massive wind farm in our midwest region. Great idea on first glance. It's wide open, flat, lots of wind to harvest. The problem is, this region is also known as "tornado alley" and is named so for a very good reason. Until such solutions can be made practical, they are really not silutions. Many of the so called "green alternatives" are either rediculously expensive or are deceptively NOT green. For example, electric cars. Sounds great, less emmissions, no gas needed, sounds like an ok solution right? Ok, so how do we charge these cars? With electricity. All we are doing is shifting our carbon foot print rather than eliminating it. Or those so called "green" light bulbs. Again, sounds grat, uses less electricity. But they are made usualy in naitons like CHina, in manufacturing process that are far more carbonous, then shipped on baots using lots of diesle and pumping exhaust. They are then shipped all over the country in trucks using the same dieslel, pumping the same exhaust. then, when you get the buylbs, if you break one, you need a Haz-Mat team to clean it up and have just introduced mercury and other toxins in to the local environment. Hybrid cars. What about the batteries? What happens 10 years from now when we have 10's of thousands of spent hybrid batteries leaking and rotting? We have no safe ways to store or dispose of these things. It is an environmental disaster of epic proportions waiting to happen. Then we have the si,mple basic issue that the science behind man made global warming simply isn't in yet and is only a concluded deal by a portion of the scientific community. Truth is we have no idea what changes the climate. We have only been monitoring weather for about 125 years. We have had weather since we have had a planet, about 4 billion years. We have no precise idea of what cloimates have been, what caused changes, etc. A lot of science now points to our sun and it's own "weather" having far greater effect on the planet's weather and climate than man can even think of. Mars has been shown to be going under similar changes in paralell with Earth. We can't well blame that on man can we? My issue with the whole global warming discussion is that there really has been no discussion. Just a lot of misrepresented facts, lies, myths and clever movies showing scenes that have nothign to do with global warming and a lot of charlitans getting rich off the hype, like Al Gore.

Electricity generating windmills have been around for along time. In the 1930s and 40s several farmers in our area had "Windchargers" in their yards. They were developed and sold by the Zenith corporation located in Chicago. They simply charged car batteries that were used to power radios. An electric car was designed and leased by GM to persons in California and the oil lobby killed that deal. This was several years ago and the persons with these cars tried to buy them, but GM reclaimed all of them and transported them to a "crusher", this was documented by film. So if that hadn't happened, we could have been driving electric cars for several years and not be dependent on foreign oil. New and better batteries are being developed, so a dumping ground for worn out batteries shouldn't be a problem. If I were a lot younger or had todays' technology concerning solar cells when I built our home, our roof would be covered with them. Thanks for the posting jb.

If they can make it work for their population, then more power to them. Here in the US, there are thousands of farmers almost begging power companies to transform their farms into windfarms. T. Boone Pickens pledged billions towards wind projects. Now, T. Boone is trying to rid himself of the windmills he already put money into, and the farmers pleas are falling on deaf ears. There might be a future for wind power, and I wish nations nothing but the best in harnassing it for their people, but here in the US, with our population and our energy needs, we can't put all our eggs in the wind power basket.

I do not agree with your point of view, first of all, the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide is the United States, China has many, but not the largest, as well as pollution emissions in China, most companies are foreign companies.Foreing companies when in fact the emission of carbon dioxide in China, I admit that China's pollution is very serious. But you should also be true in China to take effective measures to control pollution, to see his kind do not just look ai the results, but also the process, China is now in the process.

Hello Jb. I hear much in the US about developing wind farms and alternative sources for energy and fuel. I do think it is a move long needed, and yes, I have already cut waaaay back on driving, as have many Americans. It is not a bother. Karen

these countries have the resources to drastically cut emission although it would lead to some changes for citizens.