>>>>I was with John on global warning - I'd seen too many scientists debunking it and there just wasn't enough science. Not just scientists with ties to the current administration, oil companies, or big money either. It was pretty much 50/50 for a long time. That was until I saw this:
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>>>>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/17/60minutes/main1415985.shtml
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>>>The thing about "global warming" that really gets to me is that people on both sides are very passionate in their positions YET the proposed ways to address the issue are smart and good and wise regardless of whether it is fact or not. Seems to me we're once again letting some technical point get in the way of real improvements, and I ask myself why.
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>>>In the early 70s gas crisis President Nixon proposed steps that could have made huge positive changes to the economy and the use of fossil fuels. But it was disregarded as soon as gas prices went down again.
>>>The same seems to be happening again this time around.
>>>How would it hurt to have better fuel economy in cars and trucks?
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>>That costs the auto industry money.
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>>>How would it hurt if solar and wind and hydrogen became cheaper, more efficient and more popular?.. Or if geo-thermal could be more widely harnassed?
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>>That costs the oil industry money.
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>>>How would it hurt to re-cycle more and more and to ensure that more and more of what we buy is better designed for re-cycling?
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>>That costs the manufacturing industry money.
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>>>How would it hurt if mass transit was made more effective and efficient and was far more integrated into our regular infrastructures?
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>>That costs the Oil industry and the auto industry money.
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>Right, and that silly concept rules all? ... What about those industries embracing the idea that they too can make profit by being the vanguard of change????
>A CEO's job is not only to maximize this quarter's profits, but also to ensure that they are profitable in the FUTURE. And look at how GM and Ford (and Chrysler) have been doing lately with their approach until now! And the oil companies remain blind to the prospect that their commodity is of fixed volume and has to run out sometime? All those CEO deserve to be fired for their total inability (unwillingness, actually) to think to the future and embrace it.

Most of them don't think that way. What matters most is this year's bonus. The future can go ... itself. I don't remember who said it, but money is just their way of keeping score. It's always about who's winning now.