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Originally Posted by LSCto300C

So we have to wait for China and other countries like them to embrace our engergy standards before we improve upon ours?

There is nothing wrong with improving energy efficiency and reducing pollution, it goes without saying that both persuasions in the debate want that. It's the obsession with the so called greenhouse gases that distorts the whole thing. For example, the US and Canada have vast coal reserves but even "clean coal" energy production is verboten because it emits CO2. But what the rabid eco-fascists really want is a massive reduction in man's footprint on earth. Their worst nightmare would be to see the development of a clean, non-polluting source of vast energy such as nuclear fusion. CO2 is so central to all life on earth that there is no escaping it, sort of like original sin, and the green movement wants to be in the role of confessor to whom we keep paying to absolve our sins.