Comments on: Speech, Part 4: Will McCain bring conservatives with him on climate? As if! http://climateprogress.org/2008/05/14/speech-part-4-will-mccain-bring-conservatives-with-him-on-climate-as-if/ The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:21:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Lamont http://climateprogress.org/2008/05/14/speech-part-4-will-mccain-bring-conservatives-with-him-on-climate-as-if/#comment-12637 Lamont Wed, 14 May 2008 16:02:41 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/05/14/speech-part-4-will-mccain-bring-conservatives-with-him-on-climate-as-if/#comment-12637 McCain made comments in Seattle about not wanting to give incentives for solar, saying that it distorted market forces. Someone should nail him on coal and nuclear incentives. If he's not giving away billions in nuclear incentives there's no way all his yammering about nuclear is going to happen. McCain made comments in Seattle about not wanting to give incentives for solar, saying that it distorted market forces. Someone should nail him on coal and nuclear incentives. If he’s not giving away billions in nuclear incentives there’s no way all his yammering about nuclear is going to happen.

]]> By: Rich http://climateprogress.org/2008/05/14/speech-part-4-will-mccain-bring-conservatives-with-him-on-climate-as-if/#comment-12691 Rich Thu, 15 May 2008 12:03:03 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/05/14/speech-part-4-will-mccain-bring-conservatives-with-him-on-climate-as-if/#comment-12691 Don't confuse conservatives or even religious conservatives with Republicans. My in-laws live 18 miles from Greensberg, KS. It is about as conservative a town as you can get. Yet, it was the kids that convinced the entire town to bring new meaning to the name Greensburg and rebuild it according to the platinum standard. Like the kids of Greensburg young evangelicals are also convincing their parents. As for the idiot Congress critters you quoted, they won't probably survive the next election cycle. If somehow McCain gets elected green conservatives and green Republicans like myself will remind him that he promised to make real substantive changes from the last eight years. So, you got it backwards. (Real) Conservatives will bring McCain on board not the other way around. Don’t confuse conservatives or even religious conservatives with Republicans. My in-laws live 18 miles from Greensberg, KS. It is about as conservative a town as you can get. Yet, it was the kids that convinced the entire town to bring new meaning to the name Greensburg and rebuild it according to the platinum standard. Like the kids of Greensburg young evangelicals are also convincing their parents. As for the idiot Congress critters you quoted, they won’t probably survive the next election cycle. If somehow McCain gets elected green conservatives and green Republicans like myself will remind him that he promised to make real substantive changes from the last eight years. So, you got it backwards. (Real) Conservatives will bring McCain on board not the other way around.

]]> By: Wise Golden http://climateprogress.org/2008/05/14/speech-part-4-will-mccain-bring-conservatives-with-him-on-climate-as-if/#comment-13531 Wise Golden Tue, 27 May 2008 21:05:31 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/05/14/speech-part-4-will-mccain-bring-conservatives-with-him-on-climate-as-if/#comment-13531 I’m a conservative. In the past two years, I’ve bought a Hybrid car (preparing to buy a second) and reduced my oil consumption by 50%. I’ve replaced my 8 SEER heat pump with a 16 SEER heat pump. I’ve replaced my electric water heater with a solar unit. I’ve replaced 40 incandescent bulbs with CFL’s. I’ve unplugged 16 appliances that leak electricity. I’ve planted 5 fruit bearing trees in my yard for my own, and my neighbors consumption. I’ve reduced my water usage by 50%. I’ve reduce lawn chemicals from 7 times per year to 1 time per year. I hardly ever buy new cloths anymore. I’ve invested 6 figures in alternative energy plays on the stock market. And everyday, as I coast to a stop light, some a-hole in an SUV with a “Bush Lied” bumper sticker guns her engine and passes me on the way to the red light. Tell me again how it is that conservatives are causing global warming. I’m a conservative. In the past two years, I’ve bought a Hybrid car (preparing to buy a second) and reduced my oil consumption by 50%. I’ve replaced my 8 SEER heat pump with a 16 SEER heat pump. I’ve replaced my electric water heater with a solar unit. I’ve replaced 40 incandescent bulbs with CFL’s. I’ve unplugged 16 appliances that leak electricity. I’ve planted 5 fruit bearing trees in my yard for my own, and my neighbors consumption. I’ve reduced my water usage by 50%. I’ve reduce lawn chemicals from 7 times per year to 1 time per year. I hardly ever buy new cloths anymore. I’ve invested 6 figures in alternative energy plays on the stock market.

And everyday, as I coast to a stop light, some a-hole in an SUV with a “Bush Lied” bumper sticker guns her engine and passes me on the way to the red light.

Tell me again how it is that conservatives are causing global warming.

]]> By: Earl Killian http://climateprogress.org/2008/05/14/speech-part-4-will-mccain-bring-conservatives-with-him-on-climate-as-if/#comment-13533 Earl Killian Tue, 27 May 2008 21:27:18 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/05/14/speech-part-4-will-mccain-bring-conservatives-with-him-on-climate-as-if/#comment-13533 Wise Golden, you are personally doing many of the things that can be done at the individual level. Thank you! However, our greenhouse gas emissions cannot be solved by the virtuous few limiting their emissions. It takes government action. if you are voting for people like Bush, that has probably undone all of the collective efforts of people like yourself. Bush's active hostility to the things government needed to do since 2001 is a major part of the problem. Wise Golden, you are personally doing many of the things that can be done at the individual level. Thank you! However, our greenhouse gas emissions cannot be solved by the virtuous few limiting their emissions. It takes government action. if you are voting for people like Bush, that has probably undone all of the collective efforts of people like yourself. Bush’s active hostility to the things government needed to do since 2001 is a major part of the problem.

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