Global Warming and cars?

Question

Just want to see if I have this right? Liberals are concerned with emmisions and their relation to global warming, yet want everyone to be provided free healthcare and college educations. Won't that mean more people with better jobs, buying more cars and/or suv's and living longer, what about the contribution to global warming?

Poor people use public transportation, so it could be viewed as car-pooling.

You keep putting words in my mouth Autin - who said anything about people starving?

Oh, thats right, you're the one saying you're going to die from not having a $20.00 bottle of pills, yet here you are dinking the night away on the internet.

Yep i am dinking away, but I am not sitting here complaining about not being able to afford some simple medication all the while spending money on the internet and such.

Answer 1

Yeah, make the poor kids walk to school.

Answer 2

Global warming is a matter of taking personal responsibility about global issues. We can all do our part by demanding lower mileage vehicles, clean energy alternatives, using public transportation, bicycling and walking. Also choosing cleaner energy choices for heating and electricity. Soon we won't have much of a choice. The subsidies that we have been providing the oil companies and auto makers in the form of highways and wars to protect our interests in the mid east will become too costly. When we are paying 3.50 a gallon like the rest of the world, we'll be forced into smarter choices. As far as free health care and college educations, I think you're exaggerating a little. Universal heath coverage is not free, in fact the current system is bakrupting American employers. If we go to a Canadian or European system we will not only make health care available to everyone, but remove a huge burden from employers. So far all I've heard about college educations is lowering interest rates.
The person that said you are not the brightest bulb in the chandalier had you pegged. Most of your posts, to me, seem narcisstic and self centered. I've heard you talk ad nauseum about how you "better yourself" through training and hard work. Looking down your nose at those less fortunate than you doesn't raise anyone's esteem of you it just lowers you to below the level of those you look down on. Instead of criticizing all the time what are you doing to make this world a better place?

Answer 3

Global warming is only about raising taxes and creating more gvmt bureaucracies.

The Earths climate always changes, there is no such thing as a static climate.

If liberals were serious about so-called global warming, they would be building more nuclear power plants.

Answer 4

They want to lower emissions including those that come from individual cars. So if they can get all of what they want yes their may be more cars but they will have lower emissions.

That means that they hope for a lower contribution to global warming. For our lifetimes the damage has already been done. We can't reverse it all we can do is improve our practices to lend hope for future generations.

As far as free college and free health-care for all. More than anything else it may raise the bar on requirements for jobs. Actually needing a high school diploma to flip burgers?

There in the long run is a finite number of better jobs and better money.

Answer 5

Ah, but they have thought this through a little better than that. So the US economy is 16% health care; that's 16% of people NOT better off under socialized medicine. Then, free college education for all means the bachelor's degree is the new high school diploma--no longer of much value in the marketplace. Voila--many more not as prosperous as they might have been. Next, the regulations on emissions they impose will destroy what is left of the domestic auto industry, leaving all those laborers, suppliers and retirees in the lurch. And finally, the tax increases will cut into the growth of the overall economy, so most workers will be less well-off than they would have been. The liberal Utopia! Almost everybody dependent on Uncle Sam!

Answer 6

It's not the cars.
It's the destruction of the wetlands with the erosion of streams and rivers that could no longer holds water in draining water from highland to lowlands and flowing out to the sea in planet of apes.
Try and read Genesis 1
Simple basic science also don't know in planet of apes.

Answer 7

um... is this a joke?

maybe we could, oh I don't know, make cars that don't pollute so much? like hybrids? or electric?

by this same logic, Republicans should be giving them free health care and college educations so that they would be buying cars and more of other goods (because they would be making more money, as you say) and therefore stimulating the economy more and actually making it stronger?

Answer 8

I think you have hit the nail on the head. Everyone likes to talk about global warming but nobody wants to stop driving their car. So anyone who wants to disagree can just suck on my exhaust pipe.

P.S To the people who think alternative fuels like ethanol will produce less carbon dioxide.......Wrong!

The reaction of burning ethanol is almost identical to burning hydrocarbons in gasoline. Ethanol reacts with oxygen to produce carbon dioxide, water, and heat:[4]
Both fermentation and burning of ethanol release large amounts of carbon dioxide.

Answer 9

No. People who get a free college education typically do not get better jobs because they didn't have to work for it. Only self-motivated people who actually have to work to get ahead get the better jobs. There are exceptions, but this is generally the rule.

Answer 10

Your logic is flawed, but that does not suprise me. I have seen your posts before.

Anyhow, as a liberal I want there to be more investment in green technologies. We should look to Brazil, it took them 30 years of various government interventions to become completely unreliant on foreign oil. They are enjoying .90/gal ethanol prices, cleaner air and no worries about the middle east. We have a 100% tariff on ethanol imports and 0% on oil, so it is not a viable option at this point.

And to go ahead and counter your argument about "ethanol is made from corn...and if we use that all up people will starve". Ethanol can very easily be made from the prairie grass that grows like a weed all over the midwest and requires NO irrigation. Checkmate.

Are you not dinking the same night away...and my point before was a hypothetical one which your feeble conservative brain still can not seem to understand. I go to the doc if I have too...I have great credit and I use it if I have to...not all Americans have that option, and they aren't all lazy as people like you like to think...I know it helps you sleep better at night though.

Let me spell it out to you again...a HYPOTHETICAL...I go to the Doc if I want, b/c I am educated about when I actually have to go to the doc. And of course you don't care about people starving, what was I thinking, all you care about is yourself.