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Every morning I get up & use

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 14:01:37 +0000

In reply to Is your argument that only

Every morning I get up & use the crapper (if lucky).

I've no idea how to eliminate (sorry for pun) my role in polluting the environment.

I've suspected since nursery school that this behavior is filthy and bad, but still, I can't quit it.

I've been criticized a lot!!! My poop *does* stink!!! But yet I go on still!!!

Of course you're allowed to criticize me. Just tell me how to do better.

I don't want to be a blight on humanity. Even my gasses are non-green (not to mention my solids - yech).

So tell me, how do I improve? I suspect the pizza shop around the corner is complicit, as is the Dorito chain and the Chinese takeout. Someone should shut them down - they're just making a buck off of fouling the planet.

Is your argument that only

HSG — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:41:35 +0000

In reply to But you still consume, yet

Is your argument that only those who live in yurts can call the profiteers in the extraction industry evil? I think you are saying that b/c I - a proud Prius owner - live in a society where it's nearly impossible, if not impossible, to survive without consuming fossil fuels, I am as culpable as people who choose to drive hummers who themselves are as guilty as the former CEO of ExxonMobil who funded climate deniers and stymied every suggestion that the corporation move towards renewables. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/15/exxon-mobil-gave-mil... I reject that argument in whole.

Again, if super-rich people who deliberately ignore, or worse fund deniers of, basic science demonstrating that fossil fuels are burning up our planet only so they can become even richer aren't evil, who is? We can add that these corporate chieftains and their lackeys are also responsible for destroying the environments and the livelihoods of millions of people as well. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/shell-sued-uk-decades-oil-spills-n...

One last remark. It seems to me that your universal guilt argument is really a way for you (and others) to avoid facing the monstrousness of those few who are driving energy-policy for their own ends and against those of biodiversity on this planet. B/c everybody does at least some harm to the environment, you contend none is allowed to criticize even the worst malefactors.

But you still consume, yet

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 19:18:44 +0000

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But you still consume, yet you call those in the energy business evil. Should they cut you off cold turkey.

Rockefeller et al had no idea about global warming over a century later - were they evil too? What year did all non-green energy jobs become evil? Does that include energy supplying hospitals and old folks homes and blood banks? What about ambulances and fire trucks?

I am not a perfect person. I

HSG — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 19:04:47 +0000

In reply to What's your role in this,

I am not a perfect person. I consume fossil fuels. I do the best to consume as little as possible. I bike and walk as much as I can. I use public transportation whenever possible. I keep the heat down in the winter and a/c off so long as I can bear the super-charged by AGW heat in summer.

I also urge people to vote for candidates who will change the current paradigm by incentivizing the production of clean green energy and disincentivizing the production and consumption of fossil fuels.

We live in a society where most people have little or no control over their environment. A few extraordinarily wealthy and powerful people continue to push us in the worst possible direction purely out of self-interest. If that's not evil, what is?

What's your role in this,

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 07:01:41 +0000

In reply to If you define evil as

What's your role in this, your mum and dad's, your neighbors', your town's? On one level they're just giving us what we ask. We want birthday cake every day, they bring it - blame them cause we're getting fat or the candles set the house on fire?

If you define evil as

HSG — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 23:51:23 +0000

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If you define evil as destroying our biosphere, causing the 6th great extinction, falsifying data, and denying science, yes they are evil.

??? A monthly check from the

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 14:31:07 +0000

In reply to Thanks Danny. High prices

??? A monthly check from the IRS for how much? $5 for every gallon of gas sold run through all the gas station operators, charged through Visa/Mastercard/Discover/AmEx, then recycled back to the people after how many months?

And why are all these oil industry players "bad actors"? Refining oil is on the same level as "petro-dictator"? Distributing gas is evil, as is managing a pipeline? Then why are the American people getting money back for driving? Shouldn't you "screw all of them" too?

Danny's projections about oil

Peter — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 02:32:47 +0000

In reply to The Commerce Clause And Rising Oil Prices

Danny's projections about oil prices rising due to the Trump effect were interesting so I looked at what the folks at oilprice.com had to say. The Russians are projecting oil at $40 a barrel this year and $45 the next year so supply and demand are still the factors controlling oil prices not speculation or regulation. Reduced regulation may produce some improved profits but has no effect on the continuing oil glut and slowing demand holding down prices. Even the cuts announced by OPEC that caused the recent spike in price won't last because they are mostly paper cuts and increased production from Libya, Nigeria and OPEC cheating will leave the world with a glut of oil for the foreseeable future.

Perhaps Donald could send Vlad a new US made Ford SUV full of Trump steaks and wine as a conciliation gift for not helping with his oil price problem.

Thanks Danny. High prices

HSG — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 01:38:18 +0000

In reply to The Commerce Clause And Rising Oil Prices

Thanks Danny. High prices for oil on the commodities markets help lots of bad actors - petro-dictators, fossil fuel extractors, refiners, and distributors, pipeline operators, etc. - the best way to screw all of them is to tack a $5 gallon tax and rising on gasoline at the pump with all revenues rebated to the American people via a monthly check from the IRS.