‘Cash for Clunkers' not about economy | cars, dealers, auto - Opinion - YumaSun

The agenda was environmental consciousness, not jobs, not business survival or growth, and not customer satisfaction. If your family is too big to fit in one of the prescribed cars, well, lose some weight.

What a joke.

I’ll end with a quote that I think fits the situation: "Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even though there is no river." – Nikita Khrushchev.

Mitchell Anderson | Are Climate Deniers Crazy?

Maybe it's just the money talking. As itemized almost daily on this blog, many of the shrill voices in the media seem not to be speaking on their own behalf but punching the clock for Big Oil.

Climate Money - Big Government outspends Big Oil

Perhaps if Exxon had balanced up its input both for and against climate change, it would have been spared the merciless attacks? It seems not, since it has donated more than four times as much to the Stanford-based Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP)...Exxon’s grievous crime is apparently just to help give skeptics a voice of any sort. The censorship must remain complete.

Dave Matthews Band offers free music downloads for eco-pledges | Grist

The free download is also available to fans who take the So Much to Save pledge committing to at least one of the following eco-actions