[efrahin]

I am for conserving everything, that said, I believe we are very arrogant believing we can save the earth, we are only 350 milliion people. Some provinces in India or China have more than that amount. Yes we consume a lot of oil, but it will be consumed anyway, if the US dont buy that much the price will go down and will be available for billions of people who can not afford it now. I remember George Carlin once said: We are going to destroy the earth with a cup of styrofoam? ........(x rated). When the volcan Mount Hellen erupted in Alaska a few years back, it put more pollution in the air that all the pollution men had done in 5000 years. China today is making all the pollution manufacturing (ineffiencely) our products, so we are sending our pollution somewhere else where there is no public opinion. We are destroying forests through China too, the corrupt officials there together with the super-corrupt cleptogovernments in Africa are stealing all the hard woods to manufacture furniture in China for the American market.