If Mitt Romney Wins and does a good job.

[Mr Khan]

thranx said:

Mr Khan said:

Yes, saving the earth is worse than slavery, the Inquisition, the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, Stalin's 5-year plans, the Great Leap Forward, and the Crusades

Your opinion is wrong. You will retract that hyperbole now.

Most green policies are no better for the enviroment than the natural fuels they are trying to replace. The material used in solar panels in mined in China under some bad conditions. Wind power is bad for birds and wind patterns. Better to use what have in more efficeint and less enviremntally destructive ways than to force "green" energies on us that are not yet ready. The "green" industry is like any other and people are in it for the money not to save the world. Natural gas and clan burning coal plants and nuclear power are the way to hold us over until we get actual green energy sources. Saving the earth is a great thing, green policies are not as they do not save the earth in any meaningful way but like most advancments just move the pollution to a different spot.

With the materials mined in China, you have to think of that vis-a-vis coal, where you're going to be mining under bad conditions anyway, and then spewing smog off into the atmosphere later. With the solar panels, you're only looking at one of the two.

I'm not opposed to nuclear, though. We should be building more Thorium reactors.