The Internet is a funny thing...it has so much information, and yet so much misinformation! Case in point...at my school, we can sit around having great discussions about all kinds of things. The other day I was saying I only go back to visit Texas (I moved east three years ago) about once a year to see my accountant. A colleague said - wow...must be a great accountant. So I mentioned that I own a little land where they have drilled for natural gas and am part-owner of an oil well - so the accountant in TX knows how to deal with that on our taxes. (I waited for the question of if I rode a horse to work when I lived there - LOL).
So - this led to a discussion of drilling off-shore for oil and what I thought about it - and I said it was a terrible idea! I brought up Gore's Challenge to America for 100% clean energy in ten years... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAnQ1cFA_zM
Wind and solar are the way to go...did you hear about Bloomburg's idea to put wind turbines on the skyscrapers of NYC? What a great idea! How about solar panels on the roofs of all the townhouses and apartments that are being built for affordable housing in NJ? I wish I had solar panels on roof of MY townhome - but it goes against the covenants.
So - most of the people were listening and agreeing. Then one guy said "yeah - but it takes years to recoup solar panels....and while we're fighting about drilling off-shore, the Chinese are already doing slant drilling off the coast of Florida, taking OUR oil and selling it back to us". HUNH?? So I searched - and sure enough - found that rhetoric on a bunch of right-wing websites - none with hard data to back it up. But that's the scary thing...so many people don't need the hard data - they believe what they want to believe. How do we fight the untruths?
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