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Originally Posted by fotze
Do you ever find it hyprocritical that people whine and moan about the price of gas, when if the government was to tax them further, it would make it worse.
I would be for giving incentives to companies to develop those alternatives energy methods but opposed to the government taking it and wasting it. If they can make it worthwhile to develop those methods then business will take it and run with it. Also the high price of gas/oil is probably the best incentive to what you are asking.
What do you percieve is the special treatment oil companies that others do not i.e. such as fertilizer, loggging and other harmful to the environment industries.
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Ha, hey fotze I know where you are coming from my friend. I knew full well that when I made that post I would stir the pot a bit as I am posting as a bleeding-heart-socialist-liberal fellar in the heart of oil country.
I would be for giving incentives to companies to develop those alternatives energy methods but opposed to the government taking it and wasting it. If they can make it worthwhile to develop those methods then business will take it and run with it. Also the high price of gas/oil is probably the best incentive to what you are asking.
Yes, I agree full well with you that it needs to be something that can work. But I think it would be like anything else, and it would have to be an investment like education where the payoff might not be immediate. All I am asking for is for someone to pipe up and say that isn't right that we aren't doing enough to protect the environment and develop less harmful means of generating energy and fueling our cars.
The high price of gas you would think would be a road block, but we live in a very affluent society. I don't think many of us realize just how materialistic our culture has become.
Our lifestyles move along a wants vs needs paradigm...The pendalum has swung too far the other way, and IMO as long as the Liberals or Tories are in power their friends in the big business will keep lobbying to keep it that way.
What do you percieve is the special treatment oil companies that others do not i.e. such as fertilizer, loggging and other harmful to the environment industries.
Fair enough. I was using oil as an example, but it can be extended to those as well. Lots of problems, I agree.
Any big business that has the government's has the potential for bad news...Money talks, and you know the rest.