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Originally Posted by FireFly
False pretenses? Species are already dying out, some have come to extinction due to global warming. Humans are not and will not be immune to that. Destroy the country by making it cleaner? Paranoid much? OMG! Lowering the amount of gas and electricity we use may actually make user costs go down! AACK!
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Species have been dying out for years (Remember the woolly mammoth? Me neither) and certainly long before this global warming fad came about.
Destroying the country? No. Destroying the economy? Definitely a possibility if not managed properly.
User costs go down? I doubt it. Companies will pass along the costs to retro-fit their installations with these new "green machines", causing the cost to go up. After they're long paid off, they will be so used to the profit that they'll never reduce the prices and will increase prices because their closest competitor just did.
As I've said before... Doing nothing is not the answer. Something has to be done to control the pollution being generated. On the other hand, that "something to be done" must be controlled and managed, and not just implemented in a panic situation with no regards to the consequences.