Trump Aides Keep Writing Memos to Protect Themselves

MSgt Steve Sweeney - Understood. I am in the house burning in Canada. The Green New Deal is borrowed from the left of British Columbia and Ontario Canada. You personally don't pay $20 or more a month on your natural gas bill and 25 cents a gallon on your gasoline like I do. This is the proposed Carbon Tax schedule. I am at 40 bucks a ton now. The dummied down green new deal is hurting the economy. The left against Alberta and Saskatchewan oil and gas production is hurting the economy due to policies like what is proposed by Eco-Marxists Sanders and Loca AOC. The Carbon Tax is supposed to go up every year for the next 4 years. I won't drive less or put my thermostat to 50 degrees F to save the earth. F-that!

LTC (Join to see) - Sure, I understand the impact on the pocketbook, and since most of the damage from climate change will be relegated to poor countries without sufficient infrastructure, I can see why most don't care. But I am willing to bet the long term cost of doing nothing will be even greater, but at that point, most of us won't be around. Not our problem. The kids can deal with it.

But then there is the side of me that remembers we never stop improving our position, and the wisdom of leaving things better than one found it. Sure, people can continue to deny climate change, or debate what is causing it, even though the science is pretty clear, but these delaying tactics aren't improving anything.

But as long as it is someone else's problem, why should we do anything? That wisdom has always worked out well.

MSgt Steve Sweeney - We are doing something without the Queen of Harts Cortez telling us so. We keep having innovation in science and technology. Even in fossil fuel, we can compare my 1966 Mustang with a 289 V8, 4 barrel carb and no real smog controls as being a carbon monoxide smelly polluter compared to my 2015 Dodge Challenger V6 Model that gets 30 mpg on the highway and barely pollutes. The car is safer and we have come a long way. The technology will change on its own without the carbon taxes. Other countries are suffering even without climate change.Wars, ethnic tensions, Population growth, corruption, agricultural economies, and drug abuse. We can only do so much. We can't do a Manhattan project like this when we have to have a healthy balance of expenditures. Loca AOC's policies, even on a small scale, F-things up like in Canada.

LTC (Join to see) - "The technology will change on its own without the carbon taxes." - Actually, the biggest driver of automotive technology has been emission standards, hands down. Auto manufacturers did not put all that money into OBD and improved gas mileage on their own accord. You are free to find another ASE certified mechanic, and they will tell you the same.

Beauty of a pony though. We were working on a 1932 Deuce Coup with a 750 CFM Holley 4-barrel the other day, and none of the kids (early to mid twenties) had even seen a carburetor of that kind.