Dear god, uninformed politicians !!!!!
a) Global warming is an undeniable fact!
b) We have had little REAL effect on it, and can do little to REALLY slow it down.
c) Global warming is a nit on a flea on an elephant's a$$ wrt the future of western civilization compared to the Hubbert Peak for
oil which is HURTLING towards us. The most optimistic predictions say that it is 15 years away, which gives us 15 years to somehow convert Western Civilization from an
oil based economy to something as yet undefined!!!!
Hydrogen fueled cars? - GREAT fuel, perfect, BUT you get it by passing electricity through sea water, and you get electricity by burning
oil or coal in power stations. (we are close to the Hubbert Peak for uranium, so Nuclear power won't work long term either)
Bio fuels? - Most biofuels are net negative fuels...cost more energy to make than you get when you burn them.
Wind power? - sure, but folks in California and Massachusetts don't like "all those ugly windmills blocking the view from Malibu or Martha's Vineyard"
Hydroelectricity? - we've dammed everything we can, and we are either running out of water or silting up the reservoirs!
Solar power? - sure, we've got 15 years though, remember how far we've come wrt solar power in the last 15 years???????
Geothermal - hmmmm...possibility, but we are not even close to THAT technology, and we've only got 15 years remember, to develop, perfect and SPREAD THE TECHNOLOGY around the world.
The direst predictions say that by the end of the century, 80% of the world's population will be dead and the Earth will be back to a COMPLETELY UNRECOVERABLE 19th Century agrarian economy!!!
Ladies and gentlemen...enjoy it, depressing though it might be, we are living at the PEAK of human civilization. Buy your hybrid cars, put solar panels on your roof, use cloth diapers...but ONLY if they make you feel good for now, because they are making not one iota of difference to the Hubbert Peak's headlong rush!!!
personally, I was considering a bigger engine in the Cobra...
Glyn