That said from reading the first 2 paragraphs, it just seems that people are stuck in their ways, and more importantly, have attached the entire notion of green/clean energy sources to a political party, and due to the polarization of politics, just simply say "no" because their chosen party is against green/clean energy.
It's incredibly sad, depressing and just plain dumb.
I can relate to this - while my parents are very fiscally conservative, they are big time environmentalists too, so my sister and I got to drive a Toyota Prius. I grew up in a very conservative (and outrageously wealthy) suburb of NYC when it was cool to drive around in a big SUV (mid to late 2000's). The amount of verbal abuse I took for driving that Prius was extensive, from both classmates and random people on the road....despite gas being over $5 a gallon at the time. One would think people who are fiscally conservative would leap at the prospect of paying under $100 a month on gas, as opposed to paying more than that each week in gas, but, nope.
People got sucked into the green = democrat = EVIL COMMIES OH NO THEYRE GONNA TAKE MY MONEY AND MY GUNS AND MY TRUCK AND MY WAY OF LIFE mindset and just haven't grown up mentally. Thanks to extensive lobbying by automakers, oil companies, and other actors that stand to benefit from gas guzzling automobiles, that mentality hasn't changed.
You trash partisian talking poits while spouting your own hate and partisian bigotry. Why do the same as you just accused "the other guys" of? This kind of unprovoked political outburst is now common to both parties and is unwelcome, and unhelpful.
I don't push any hate - I'm just speaking from experience, and also from first hand knowledge of living in different red states (Florida, Arizona) who are abundant in relatively untapped energy sources that could make a difference on the local grid, but due to heavy lobbying and finger-pointing from the GOP, those sources remain untapped.
Go ahead, name me 1 GOP politican who is on the national stage and says we should ban fossil fuels outright and embrace all forms of alternative energy. Give me 1 GOP power-broker in either chamber of congress who hasn't taken massive lobbying dollars from the Oil&Gas companies.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 24.3 ms ] threadThat said from reading the first 2 paragraphs, it just seems that people are stuck in their ways, and more importantly, have attached the entire notion of green/clean energy sources to a political party, and due to the polarization of politics, just simply say "no" because their chosen party is against green/clean energy.
It's incredibly sad, depressing and just plain dumb.
I can relate to this - while my parents are very fiscally conservative, they are big time environmentalists too, so my sister and I got to drive a Toyota Prius. I grew up in a very conservative (and outrageously wealthy) suburb of NYC when it was cool to drive around in a big SUV (mid to late 2000's). The amount of verbal abuse I took for driving that Prius was extensive, from both classmates and random people on the road....despite gas being over $5 a gallon at the time. One would think people who are fiscally conservative would leap at the prospect of paying under $100 a month on gas, as opposed to paying more than that each week in gas, but, nope.
People got sucked into the green = democrat = EVIL COMMIES OH NO THEYRE GONNA TAKE MY MONEY AND MY GUNS AND MY TRUCK AND MY WAY OF LIFE mindset and just haven't grown up mentally. Thanks to extensive lobbying by automakers, oil companies, and other actors that stand to benefit from gas guzzling automobiles, that mentality hasn't changed.
Go ahead, name me 1 GOP politican who is on the national stage and says we should ban fossil fuels outright and embrace all forms of alternative energy. Give me 1 GOP power-broker in either chamber of congress who hasn't taken massive lobbying dollars from the Oil&Gas companies.
FYI I'm not a Democrat, nor a GOP.