30 seconds ago I turned my TV off because I heard Glenn Beck equate proponents of climate change to Nazis. It was something about a car commercial that involved a child that was ashamed of being dropped off in front of school in a gas guzzling SUV. Beck's comment was that using children to get to their parents was just like what the Nazis did. (Apparently the Nazis used the children to tell them what anti-Nazi things their family was doing) I don't know, maybe its just me but I have trouble seeing the similarities.
The few people that I talk politics with have often wondered why I am skeptical of the "conservative" vein of thought. The reason is on television at 9pm on CNN.
I can honestly say that I am not 100% sold on the idea that we are massively irreversibly changing the environment. But I am 100% sure that carbon monoxide is bad for you. If you don't believe me then run your car in a closed garage and call me tomorrow and tell me how it went. I am also 100% sure that I hate paying $3 a gallon. If I drive an average of 12,000 miles a year at 20mpg then approximately 5% of my after tax salary goes to gasoline. I don't want to think that GM is withholding technology that would save gas mileage but if they were.....I would hate that too.
My official political stance so far is that I hate things that are bad for me and I hate expensive fuel and I hate the possibility that I am being hoodwinked by an entire industry. Ironically, my extended political stance includes a hatred for lawmakers attempting to legislate what is good/bad for me. It's kinda funny because I also hate unnecessary government enforced corporate regulation. Who knew that regulation ironically forces corporations to be more involved in government? I hate being ironically forced to do anything. This little known equation explains why we should want less government and corporate interaction: corporation + government = hoodwinking.
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