Let's pretend for a minute that the overwhelming majority of scientists are wrong and man made pollution isn't contributing much to our climate change. What's the worst that can come from believing them right? Cleaner air and water? Ending our dependence on foreign oil? Actually having a manufacturing base in this country?
Whether or not you believe climate change is real, the demand for cleaner/greener energy IS real. People want electric cars, more hybrids, solar charging stations, biofuel vehicles, hydrogen and wind power, etc. These are products that people BUY (and we don't fucking MAKE).
How about: the cost of all those "alt" energy sources is far greater than what we have now. Therefore adopting them as mandatory would effectively be an enormous tax hike on people, especially the working class people the Left claims to represent.
If alt energy were so wonderful we wouldn't need gov't mandates telling us to use it.
But, like your beloved Trickle Down tried to do, wouldn't it also create more jobs and increase tax revenue? And once it becomes more established we will have created an entire new industry, added lots of jobs, increased tax revenue, reduced our dependance on foreign oil and made our nation cleaner for future generations.
Not bad, eh?
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How do you create more wealth by taking money from people?
WHere do they teach this stuff???