Solution to Global Warming; keep the energy prices high! Who agrees with me?

Question

Causes of Global Warming:

1) Carbon Dioxide from Power Plants

2) Carbon Dioxide Emitted from Cars

Problems of renewable energy and energy efficiency:

1) renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies cause consumers to consumer energy 2 times due to lower energy price.

Solution to Global Warming:

1) Keeping the energy prices high will force consumers to conserve energy which means carbon dioxide emissions from the power plant. 50 years ago, household A/C non exist. We can live without A/C

2) Keeping the energy prices high will increase demand on public transportation (Bus, Train, Car Pool, etc). We don't need to own a car. We have public transportation in the urban and suburban.

We are spoiled!!! If we believe in saving the planet earth, keep the energy prices high. Al Gore, Obama, Clinton, and enviromentalists should be supporting high enery prices. Otherwise, they are a FAKER and only cares about their wealth.

Answer 1

Keep energy prices high?   Not a good idea.    Think of what your idea would do to the economy of the country.   People would have to quit buying the useless junk from china and $4 lattes from starbux.   Many people think it is their right to have cheap fuel and would suffer.    Natural selection of those who are able to adapt to change?     Cut out the subsidies that amount to close to $5/ gallon in this supposedly capitalist economy?   Sure, why not let the market actually set the price.

Answer 2

I'd support raising taxation on fuel, but only if alternatives were subsidised.

Buisnesses would have to be more innovative and theres nothing wrong with that, we need to be more adaptive.

People think 'going green' means they will be worse off and less happy. But i think it can be very rewarding. The media tend to focas only on the bad side, and don't tend to go into the things that we could gain.

Answer 3

There is no solution to global warming becaused it is not human caused, it has been going on for thousands of yeays. My wife and I are disabled and are not riding any bikes or walking long distances to some bus that doesn't go when or where we want.

If you are so worried about co2 then why aren't you all trying to get soda and beer outlawed? Every time you open a can and you hear the psssst, that's co2 you are killing the planet with-all over the world!

Answer 4

CBS News correspondent Bernie Goldberg says the liberal mainstream media is largely ignoring the voices of scientists and academics who are skeptical of the notion that global warming is caused by human activity.

Answer 5

I agree completely...actually, I'll go further and say that gas prices should be higher.  The government needs to stop subsidizing gas prices, and the price will go up to about 8-10 dollars/gallon.  If this happened people will push for alternative energy forms.  Also, the subsidies that went to gas could go towards renewable forms of energy.

Answer 6

Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb!

In other words, let's make the poor people really suffer.

The problem is your main premise is wrong. Man made CO2 is not the problem. There is no evidence to support this position. CO2 has been shown to lag temperature, not increase. Let's look at the last 8 to 9 years. Higher CO2, lower temps. How can that be? Or how about the 70's. Higher CO2, lower temps. If we want to discover the reason for temp increase, let's look at the sun. Seems to be a logical start. In fact, people have done this and what do you now, a close correlation between the sun and the earths temp.

If you want to live without A/C, be my guest. I like it. I am going to continue to use it. As for public transportation, I used to use it, but now I drive, and will continue to drive.

The real problem are people like yourself, who want to use the global warming myth to promote the way you may want to live to all others. I like being spoiled. I will continue to use energy as it is here for us to use. Oil and coal are resources for us to use. Of course if we waste it, it will run out. But people will adapt. That's what we do. IN the future (oil is plentiful and will be for many more years), we will need to use different power sources. Who knows, maybe we have not invented it yet, or maybe we will use more nuclear power.

The one thing I do know is we should conserve our energy sources by not wasting them. But to try and dictate the way people must live is just....socialist/communist.

Answer 7

You just proved your age. Are you 13 or 14 years old?

Yes Global Warming is a huge issue, but if you think for a second that "high prices" are going to do anything BUT to fill the pockets of the mega corporate elites... you are naive.

We need to come together as a people, no matter if you believe Global warming is Mans fault or if it is Natural because either way it effects the entire human race.

And if we just keep arguing about the "penny" BS, our future children will be the ones that will suffer.

Time to wake up to a little higher way of thinking, before there is nothing left to wake up too.

Answer 8

Blame Clinton, greens for high gas prices

Posted: April 26, 2008

© 2008

With gas prices now yon-side of $3.50 per gallon, wouldn't it be great to have an extra million barrels of domestic oil flowing daily into the American pipeline? Blame William Jefferson Clinton, who vetoed a bill in 1995 that would have opened the Alaska reserves that could have been producing much-needed domestic energy today.

Blame the green environmental extremists who block every effort to expand domestic energy supply, whether in offshore oil reserves, expansion of clean coal production, or the construction of new nuclear energy facilities. It's just plain dumb to allow the shortage of readily available energy to drive prices so high that the entire economy and food supply are in jeopardy.

The fear-mongering extremists bring up the "global warming" hobgoblin every time a new initiative is introduced to increase the energy supply. Atmospheric carbon dioxide from human activity makes little or no difference to the climate.

The one thing on which scientists agree is that atmospheric carbon dioxide is currently about 375 parts-per-million. Eighty percent of this carbon is naturally occurring and would be in the atmosphere had oil never been discovered. The remaining 20 percent, or about 75 ppm, is generally attributed to all the smokestacks and automobiles and lawnmowers humans have created.

Could all carbon dioxide produced by humans be eliminated from the atmosphere, the difference would be undetectable. Visualize an Olympic-size swimming pool containing the standard 660,253.9 gallons of water. The average depth would be 7.48 feet. Remove the percentage of water equal to manmade carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and the new average depth of the pool would be 7.452 feet. Undetectable!

A reduction of 75 ppm of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would make no difference on any thermometer. And it would take total elimination of all manmade carbon dioxide to achieve this number. The Kyoto Protocol, had it been fully implemented, would have reduced carbon dioxide by only about 1 ppm.

These results are simply not worth banning the use of fossil fuels.

Environmental extremists prefer to mandate the expanded use of ethanol, rather than using abundant oil supplies. This alternative produces less energy per gallon of fuel than gasoline, while driving the price of food upward, causing riots and forcing the cultivation of more land where wildlife can no longer flourish.

Environmental extremists wring their hands and cry crocodile tears at the thought of "ruining" the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge by using only 2,000 of the 18 million acres for oil production. But they seem to have no problems with the idea of covering millions of acres in the southwest with solar panels.

Environmental extremists celebrate their victory in banning DDT to save birds. But they have no problem with miles and miles of wind turbines that slaughter millions of birds every year. Nor do they seem to have any sympathy for the millions of people who have died from malaria as a direct result of the ban on DDT.

Big oil is not to blame for the high price of gasoline; the blame must fall squarely in the lap of the environmental extremists who use propaganda and fear-mongering to block the increases in the production of readily available fossil fuels. There are sufficient reserves of coal to last about 200 years. Despite Jimmy Carter's 1970s declaration that the world would be out of oil by 2000, and considering the anticipated increase in demand, there are enough known oil reserves to last at least 60 years. This energy should be available now.

Of course, research should continue to find abundant, affordable energy supplies for the future. But forcing technology to advance by arbitrarily and unnecessarily prohibiting the use of currently available energy supplies makes no sense. The price of both existing supplies and alternative technology is artificially increased. To write this foolishness into law is even worse.

Every time government sticks its nose into the marketplace and attempts to manage it, government makes a mess. The ethanol mandate, for example, inevitably results in price increases for food – for everyone. The arbitrary increase in fuel efficiency standards inevitably results in smaller, lighter automobiles – and more crash-related deaths. The much touted cap-and-trade program for carbon emissions will inevitably result in taking money out of the pockets of wage-earners and transfer it to the pockets of people like Al Gore, who created the "hot-air" store and sells his goods only because government forces people to buy them.

Every time a person fills up at the pump, he should visualize the billions of barrels of oil that are waiting in Alaska, and the billions of barrels of oil that are waiting in the Dakotas and Montana, and the billions of barrels of oil that are waiting just off shore – and curse the environmental extremists who are forcing him to pay far more for his transportation than is necessary.

Answer 9

I work 15 miles from my dorm.  There is no public transportation.  You are also going to win over about 0 people with the whole "50 years ago, household A/C non exist. We can live without A/C" argument.

I'm the only one that works there, and riding my bike (which I do have) 15 miles to work on the freeway is not going to happen.

Some people do need cars, Texas is not like New York City.

Answer 10

been doing it for years mate. petrol and diesel both £5 per gallon here now. we have much more efficient cars as a result.

Answer 11

MAYBE ONE OF THESE DAYS YOU'LL WAKE UP ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BED. GLOBAL WARMING IS CAUSED BY A MUCH HIGHER INTELLIGENCE THAN WHAT MAN POSSESS, BUT WE DO HAVE A WAY TO DELETE IT. http://www.socyberty.com/Activism/First-...   PRICES OF ANYTHING HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH G.W. THIS IS MAN'S GREED NO MATTER WHAT CONTINENT THEY LIVE ON.