Phil Timmons
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People who want to vastly change the way we live unchecked? Take fuel prices up to unaffordable levels? Get rid of American energy jobs?Spend trillions on their unproven facts? Yeah, it definitely occupies some of my mental time.
The ones who drink the environmental catastrophe news down like Woka-Cola scare me a lot more.
Things are not moving so fast that you are likely to be effected in your life time.
For the rest of US -- it is something a "Tragedy of the Commons" thing. You familiar with the "Commons?" It is a concept of shared resources. Since anyone can take from or dump in the common areas (shared land, or water, or air) some folks get greedy and take-take-take, and others are slobs and dump-dump-dump.
Here is the Wiki version >>> Tragedy of the commons - Wikipedia
Most of US can get by fine-or-better by moving past ICE (Internal Combustion Engines) and moving on to Electric Motors. Cheaper, Faster, Cleaner -- all that. Means less taken from the Commons, and less dumped into the Commons. Better for everyone in that regard.
If you stick around with the Olde Skool, and Diesel ICE -- with you as one, or a few does not really matter. Sort of like the Amish with Horses. If we all had horses, we would cover the land in horse ****. But since there are few Amish, it does not really matter Sort of funny for that as culture. Consider India -- they consider themselves imposed upon because they are being "forced" to move on from a culture of Open Defecation. Really, no joke. Someone did a TED talk on that. More Tragedy of the Commons. >>>