John Stossel – Going Green Part 2 of 6
By GoingEcoGreen on Aug 04, 2010 with Comments 15
John Stossel show aired on FOX Business network on May 27th, 2010. It was all about “green energy” and “feel good” things environmentalist want us to do. Overall, I liked this show a lot. It did not change my view on the subject as my opinion is already firmly formed (I am the ‘denier’) but it was worth watching every minute. I broke it down into following parts due to various lengths of its segments: 1) Can we go green? 2) Green gone wrong. 3) Misplaced priorities. 4) “Energy Star” schemes. 5) Questions from the audience and Stossel’s perspective. 6) Delusion of independence, Stossel wins a bet with a billionaire.
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@karozans Hahaha.
Ya, that’s what I want my wife and kids to be driving in…..a 74 mpg car that’s nothing more than a coffin on wheels. Regulations…?!?!….higher taxes?!? This woman started out sounding great but then…..? I personally, like big cars….the bigger, the better. I know that if my wife and kids are going to get into an accident, and they did, they will be safe.It’s simple physics.She, my wife, t-boned a guy running a red light in our cadillac.She drove home, the idiot had to tow his.
What she says “but the market won’t let me have it”, what she really means is that, nobody wants this but me, and I am right and everyone else is just ignorant.
lol: I don’t think we need guns, I think we need “guns”
I remember going to a Whole Foods store with my friends, I told one of them that canvas bags are made through child labor in Guatemala and she believed me.
john is normally right on target. however, there are many points in this broadcast that are incorrect.
on the organic issue, I don’t buy organic for “green” reasons, I simply want to avoid poisonous food additives that the FDA allows in non-organic foods.
real alternative research is being prevented. there are brown’s gas generators, joe cells, perendev and bedinni motors and neutrino rods. if you don’t mention these alternatives, then you are not looking at the whole picture.
We need regulations!
But government is force, with guns.
No, we don’t need guns, we need regulations!
Too bad that girl at the end is so stupid (about taxes and regulation). She is really cute.
When I was walkin to the checkout counter at Dierbergs the other day, I actually saw a new aisle that happened to be for organic bullshit. I just shook my hand in disgust and said “ridiculous.” So many people have bought into this organic bullshit. John Mackey (Whole Foods), a libertarian who should know better, even got hooked.
@whoo689 When I found out Energy Star is simply a bogus EPA program, rather than actually private certification system backed by people who actually know a thing or 2, I couldn’t believe it! Yet here are companies sending in all their products to the EPA to get a stamp of approval that they’re “energy efficient”, whether or not that’s the case. Of course, b/c the program is so bogus, maybe that’s why so many companies participate. They know it’ll be easy getting certified.
I’ve never had much faith in the whole “energy independence” movement, and folks like Robert Bryce only confirm what I’ve already had a hunch on. Energy independence in the U.S. is just impossible. Besides, we only import about 1/8th or 1/6th of our oil from the Mid-East. We get more from Latin America! Yet few people are saying we need to become independent of Chavez. It’s always the Middle East oil they go after. It’s pure ignorance. I wish these folks would just give it up.
Thank you, Stossel. Let’s educate the enviro-nuts. Fossil fuels are still the best, cheapest and some of the most efficient on the planet. It’ll take DECADES, if not centuries, to come up with the technology to make wind or solar as efficient, if at all possible, as oil, coal or uranium.
hemp 4 fuel.
I work at a grocery store and I hate it when people bring those bags in. It takes up more time bigger the stuff in those bags than it does to just use plastic.
Thumbs up this post if you think Stossel’s stash is LUSH!