Laws and global warming...?

Question

why cant we enforce laws so that we can save our planet? like a law that tells us to..well like use less of foreign gasoline in our cars? i no this isnt exactly thought out right but like...the question says it all...

maybe ppl might riot cuz they dont like the laws but some laws are for the best

Answer 1

They have already passed laws to tell us which light bulbs we can buy, what milage cars will need to get and regulating industry with carbon credits.  See: S1419, Renewable Fuels, Consumer Protection, and Energy Eficiency Act of 2007.

Answer 2

Who will make and pass the laws, some knuckle-head like you ?

Answer 3

Why don't we make a law that says everybody has to be happy all the time? Lets just live in 1984.

Answer 4

I think your question is well-intentioned but passing a law to stop people from buying foreign-produced fuel would also block the purchase of ethanol from Brazil. Passing a law to make people act against their own interest is a good way to start a revolution, see the Stamp Act that started the Revolutionary War.

The best thing to do is to make the politicians get out of the way and let science and the free market system solve this. There are already all-electric cars being brought on the market and several different ways to produce the electricity they need without fossil fuels and the government isn't responsible for any of it.

The problem with the CO2 debate is that there is only one option as far as the UN and environmentalists are concerned and that's to end our industrial civilization. Any solution to the 'problem' of CO2 (a gas necessary for most life on Earth) is rejected. Because it's not about solving a problem, it's about political power and controlling your life as well as mine. Do you really trust the UN to do that? Given their great track record with the Oil for Food program in Iraq, the stellar rescue of people in Darfur, I don't want them anywhere near my thermostat, thanks.

Answer 5

Do you really think that a law can stop global warming? Do you really believe that SUV's and cars are the source of global warming or climate change? Then can you explain to me why other planets like Jupiter, and even Pluto are experiencing Global warming also? The entire solar system is heating up not just Earth. There are no cars there!!! That gigantic ball of burning gas at the center of our solar system that we orbit is the real problem. Simply type into google sun brighter, or sun entering brightest cycle, scientists thought the last 11 1/2 year cycle was the brighest ever recorded and now they are saying the new cycle is already online to dwarf the previous one. They are estimating the new cycle will be 50% brighter than the previous cycle. This cycle of the sun is slated to peak in the next 6 years. The sun is actually heating up, and burning brighter than it used to...A Colorado state professor recently stated that global warming is indeed happening but human beings are not the cause. Radical climate change is happening. But it's not just on Earth, it's the entire solar system.

The Earth goes through cycles of climate change... places that are frozen today like alaska were mild climates as early as 2,000 years ago as recorded by Plato. Global warming is nothing new. The sun is getting hotter, and brighter. There is no tax the united nations can slap on the people that is going to stop global warming, and no law is going to stop it either. Go research this stuff for yourself, most of what you hear in the mainstream media isn't true anyway.

Say for instance alternative fuel made from corn that they call more enviromentally friendly. If you will go research the process in which the fuel is created in the factories you will find it is even more damaging to the enviroment to refine/create the fuel than our current fuels, and you will also find that if they picked every last ear of corn in the united states to make this alternative fuel it will only cover around 3% of America's guzzling oil demand. Don't listen to Al Gore and his global warming rants, go educate yourself with books on the topics with actual facts.

Answer 6

Our planet is fine the way I see it. All the liberals want to do is make you believe into their lies so they can raise taxes on you.

Answer 7

If it were really a democracy, you would still have to convince a majority of your fellow citizens that this is a good idea... not only the general concept, but the detailed plan.

If the people wanted to conserve their own and the world's supply of fossil fuels, if they wanted to keep some for future generations, yes, they could cap the amount of fuel extracted here, and that imported. It would ceratinly cut fossil fuel consumption and GHG emissions.

Now, however, just reducing the fuel we have available to burn would be a great gift to  those who own the fuel, because the price would go through the roof. So to avoid riots you might also have to add a major carbon tax that moves a large part of that price increase back into the taxpayer's pockets, by reducing other forms of taxation, by paying for things we need like schools, hospitals public transit, or just giving a lot of people a major tax holiday.

The rationale here is to make sure as much as possible of the price increase is used to allow people ot go on living, but with no incentive to go on using fossil fuels. Ideally we would want to prevent a reduction in available fuel from transferring  a windfall of wealth to fuel owners, and avoid enriching government bureaucrats.

Unfortunately, our market system is intended always to provide us with more of things, not to arrange for us to use less. Fuel producers are not allowed to conspire together to reduce production or importation, No matter how useful that would be.

Answer 8

It is hard to get people to agree on a course of action. Too often politics trumps common sense. I agree with you that we should be most alarmed about our oil consumption, and the debts we owe foriegners because of it. They will want to exchange their dollars for real products or assetts (like companies or real estate). If we don't produce more than we export,  we will end up increasingly working for foreign shareholders and paying rent to foreign landlords. We'd be  better off with the profits spent locally, more likely to create jobs here. The laws I'd like to see: 1. reduced speed limits-  this could save a lot of fuel immediately, and make alternate transportation (bikes,mopeds, small low power cars) more  able to keep up..  2. A new tax on all petrochemicals, with the proceeds divided up at years end, and paid out to every citizen. This way people who used a lot of energy would pay alot of tax, and people who used less would be recieving a benefit.

      but many people  would prefer a system called "cap & trade",with an  emphasis on co2 reduction. This is likely to be  politically popular because it  doesn't interfere with peoples automobile use,  and we can feel like we are saving the planet by making power companies pay for "carbon credits", unless they generate electricity by approved methods. I think this plan would be more costly to administer- we'd need to have a whole new bureaurocracy.  But the costs would be concealed, and people in our  "service economy" don't realise that production and manufacturing use unavoidable, large amounts of energy. there is no such thing as a "low watt" arc welder. expensive energy would make  it harder for our products to compete, and thus pay for imported goods (and oil).

       A good example of a polically popular solution is provided by "alcohol fuels".  and this also demonstrates that laws may have unintended consequences- higher food prices, in this case.

Answer 9

I think your question is a good one, but I can't really tell. It's a bit confusing. I think that we can enforce laws to save the planet but the question is: will we? It's one thing to say you're going to do something, but another to actually do it.

For all you people who are deluded, global warming is a real thing, NOT A SCAM.  A lot of countries are doing something though, so there is hope. I would advise you to write to your politicians with your issue and see what happens.

Good luck.

Answer 10

If you would like to persuade people to agree with you, it would help to do two things.  First, throw in an English lesson.  People are not likely to agree with your position if you use "no" in place of "know," a bunch of periods instead of real punctuation, etc.  Second, please think through your argument before posting it.

Is it OK if the USA replaces its imported oil (not gasoline) with more domestic oil?  To do that, you bleeding-heart liberal environmentalists are going to have to "pass laws" to allow drilling in places like ANWAR.  Somehow, I doubt the left wing is going to be too happy with that idea.  And if we do replace foreign oil with domestic oil, what difference will that make in regards to the alleged anthropogenic global warming?  CO2 emissions won't decrease.

I'm all for reducing dependence on foreign oil, but for a much different reason than you.  We need to reduce the dependency so we can stop having to rely on countries like Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.  Those countries have the USA by the short hairs and can influence everything from our economy to our military through manipulation of oil prices.

Answer 11

Our planet is in no danger.

The Earth has warmed and cooled in the past many times without us influencing it one bit.

Even major oil spills ( and they are bad ), but during world war two think of all the different kinds of ships and tankers that hauled all kinds of petroleum products that were sunk.

A temporary bad mess was made but we had no means of dealing with clean up back then but the Earth by itself corrected it.

I'm an avid outdoors man and I want to keep the place clean but there is nothing we could do to cause or prevent the warming or cooling of this planet.

Answer 12

Wish we could. I don't think people care enough about anything but themselves so this will never work. We feel we have the "freedoms" to rape mother earth. Its going to take some time, maybe in a few decades when it actually starts to affect them personally. I say stop suckling on the oil teat. Its close to being gone, lets find a replacement before we use it all up.