Comments on: A bunch of bland old guys offer a bunch of bland old solutions

By: Daniel Haran

Daniel Haran — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:48:01 +0000

Rich: agreed wrt to CAFE. Some sectors are going to have a hard time though – I’m thinking in particular coal mining. The sooner we face that reality (Gore did so brilliantly in his speech), the sooner we can neutralize that opposition.

To be clear though: I think we’ll all be wealthier, even if some corporations bite the dust.

By: Rich Blinne

Rich Blinne — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:34:14 +0000

Daniel, it’s actually good for business. By not having more aggressive CAFE standards in the ’80s and ’90s we have successfully killed off the American automobile industry. I am an engineer and we will work to the specs given to us. If there is no spec, we will do what is easiest. What was easiest was the high-margin SUVs because the CAFE standards didn’t force them to be something more efficient. Now nobody wants them. Congress thought they were doing Detroit a favor but they weren’t. For something sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce the lack of economic understanding here is simply put, staggering.

By: Daniel Haran

Daniel Haran — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:50:23 +0000

“We must not set targets for which technology does not yet exist or which threatens major economic displacement.”

Gee gosh, we have to save our climate, but we can’t actually do anything that would put anyone out of business.

By: Ronald

Ronald — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:35:44 +0000

You can go to war, but nobody can die. You have to bake a cake, but you can’t break any eggs.

The best declarations must be those that everybody can be for and nobody can be against. That’s a negotiator.