Does bashing environmentalists impede our progress? Over the last few years it has been fascinating to listen to poltical flip floppers contradict themselves, place blame on everyone but themselves, and constantly make excuses.

Consider just a couple of years ago when every talk radio conservative was making fun of electric cars, alternative fuels, people who bought the Prius etc.... They valiantly drove their hummers and SUVS with pride.

Now gas goes to 4.5/gallon and these very same people are on the radio every day railing about how important it is to end dependency on foreign oil, develop green fuel technologies, drill in new places in the interum etc.... There is not the slightest hint of shame in their voices as they pretend to be the first people on earth to come up with this idea...the very same attitude they decried wityh their fake outrage not long ago.

Does the anti-environmentalism impede progress? Does railing about the %26quot;scam of global warming%26quot; do anyone any good other than put a stumbling block on progress?

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We are going to have to address this problem anyways. We need to get off fossil fuels.

I don%26#039;t think anyone who%26#039;s done any kind of research on the subject disputes that electric cars are inherently better than internal combustion engine cars in almost every respect. Right now this second are electric cars better than gas cars? No, but does that make them useless and idiotic? Of course not. EVs are far more efficient than internal combustion engine cars.

It%26#039;s this sort of right-wing thinking in which anything associated with liberals and the environment is automatically bad that%26#039;s slowing progress.

So is this perception that environmentalists want to %26#039;take us back to the stone ages and live in caves%26#039;. Environmentalists want to push technological advances like wind and solar energy, electric and biofuel cars. That%26#039;s the exact opposite of going back to the stone ages!

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It%26#039;s amazing how these people think. They can%26#039;t give any credit to liberals and they can never admit they are wrong.

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• Progress??? Progress to an environmentalist is living in the stone ages.
  
  Environmentalist should be tickled, this is the world they envisioned.
  
  The problem with gas prices was created by these environmentalist %26amp; their democrat enablers by shutting down any drilling that was needed 30 YEARS AGO.
  Now the US must %26quot;ask%26quot; for its enemies to sell us their oil.
  
  The environmentalist also destroyed any chances for multiple Nuclear power plants using their patented scare tactics.
  So now we are forced into using even more of ours and other fossil fuels.
  
  I feel most environmentalist are basically traitors and terrorists.
• Well these are the kind of idiots who 5 years ago were bashing efforts put in renewable energies and now come to you to ask you in which of these companies they should invest in...
  
  The same people who bashed ideas from environmentalists to increase gradually and artificially gas prices 5 years ago to let the economy and the energy efficiency level adapt and are now whining about gas prices...
  
  The same people who bragged about the free market and now advocate strong state intervention to reduce the reliance on foreign oil...
  
  I guess you just can´t debate about people who have the agenda of their party and are not educated enough to think by their own on these problems.
• So your begrudging some one who can afford the life style they choose? Interesting statement coming from someone that has to pay the same amount for a gallon of petrol. Maybe you should write your congressman that%26#039;s riding around with your hard earn income. Get the congress to make a decision...even a bad one would be nice.
  
  ed: no... we need fossil fuels to get off of fossil fuels. There%26#039;s not a magic easy button. Just stubborn hard headed individuals.
• people didn%26#039;t listen to them,because they only talk of things that do not exist,there is no electric car that meets the needs of people,there is no alternative fuel yet. environmentalist impede progress most of the time. when there are true advances in technology people will use them.but until then we need oil and we should get it from our own country
• Not at all. Although there are some meaningful environmentalists out there, too many have simply adopted the term to further political agendas. Bashing them is necessary. And your point about stopping our use of fossil fuels is wrong. There is no reason whatsoever to stop.
• I certainly hope so. If not, we need to use bigger hammers.
• I believe global warming is an inevitable natural event. We humans have a definite impact on our environment, but I have doubts that we have the ability to alter the climate of the entire world. The earth has gone through many cycles of climate without us and it will continue to do the same once we are gone.
  I think every eco-friendly Idea is a good one, as they put forward ideas that will advance our race and scientific learning and what not. So yes, bashing environmentalists and any thought leads to ignorance. Every idea should be contemplated with the best outcome of our race in mind.
  Nuclear power is clean and produces no emissions. Just my thoughts