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On February 16th, 2009 at 7:14 pm, Obi-Wandreas said:

When you look at these turkeys, ya gotta respect a guy like Ed Begley, Jr.. He doesn’t go around telling other people how to live. He just lives his own life in a small house recycling pretty much everything. He lives the example he wants to set.

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On February 16th, 2009 at 7:28 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

Speaking of Ed Begley, Jr., he and Bill Nye are next door neighbors and were featured recently in a local PBS segment about alternative energy. They compete with each other for the title of “most green house” and it boiled down to Ed Begley winning because he makes more money and has more to spend. Neither claim that it pays to be green. In fact, Nye was moaning about how expensive his solar panels are ($30,000 just to cover his garage).

So Obi’s point was dead on. Neither is a hypocrite. They are green at any cost and don’t claim that it is cheaper than buying electricity off the grid or using standard cars.

This is exactly why I respect Begley Jr./Nye. They say they what to live a “green” life and they do it. No huge mansions and carbon credits. They also don’t (or I haven’t heard) them say that we must be forced by government to buy small cars, CFL’s etc. They seem to look at both the pros and cons of all options and pick the best ones.

Leno had someone on last night and they were originally a corn-based ethanol nut. They realized it’s consequences (i.e. food to fuel)and realized it wouldn’t work. They are now looking at other more viable options.

A number of “green” celebrities and politicians in Britain who push all kinds of “green” policies on the public are, themselves, wasting massive amounts of home heat. From the UK……

On February 16th, 2009 at 11:22 pm, Papa Louie said:

They’re also the people who want to ration health care to everyone else, and are in the preliminary stages of implementing a policy of involuntary euthanasia with the porkulus bill. They think that premium health care and an endless stream of wonder drugs will still be available to them even when they make R&D unaffordable for pharmaceutical companies and make the medical profession so financially unrewarding that noone will want to waste the many years it takes to complete medical training. They’re going to be in for a surprise, but it won’t help the rest of us any.

The Liberal Elite are the “Looters” talked about in Atlas Shrugged. The Looters consist of men and women who use force to obtain value from those who produce it. They seek to destroy the producers despite the fact that they are dependent upon them. For the worst of them, the green movement is just a means to that end – to destroy the producers. That’s why they want to shutdown coal-fired plants and stop oil drilling and anything else that is a means to production.

When they finally realize they are committing suicide, they will allow just enought mining and drilling to maintain their own life styles, but the rest of the world will starve. Even the worst predictions for Global Warming will be a picnic compared to what Liberals would do to the world. Anyone who listens to them is a fool.

Algore’s huge place in Tennesse, his boy busted doing 100+ in damn Prius (who knew they would go 100 mph?).

Why do I get this vision of John Candy and Steve Martin turning into skeletons as they passed between two semi-trucks in the movie ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles‘?

Did you know that about 15 years ago, the Sierra Club, yes THE SIERRA CLUB, got busted for having an OPEN DAMN SEWER draining into a creek approximately 200 feet from one of their larger properties used by senior people in the organization? True story. Property was in a remote area of California and had no operational septic system. Just an underground pipe that discharged into a small stream.

Same old, same old. “Do as I say you should, not as I do and be quiet about what I do!”

So Obi’s point was dead on. Neither is a hypocrite. They are green at any cost and don’t claim that it is cheaper than buying electricity off the grid or using standard cars.

So Obi’s point was dead on. Neither is a hypocrite. They are green at any cost and don’t claim that it is cheaper than buying electricity off the grid or using standard cars.