[eweissenbach]

Corporations exist to make money for their shareholders and there is nothing wrong with that. They often will place profit above ethics or morals, and there is something wrong with that. That is why the government has to intervene occasionally, as Teddy Roosevelt understood, to make sure the citizens interests are looked out for. Corporate interests are constantly crying about "burdensome regulations", but look what happened a few years ago when banking and finance regulations were relaxed. Sure regulation costs corporations money, which will be passed along to the consumer, but isn't that better than having a financial system collapse, costing a trillion dollars, or worse yet a catastrophic environmental disaster? Corporate interests have spent a LOT of money to insure that their interests are represented by politicians, talking heads, and even quasi researchers and "think tanks". Climate change is the latest environmental issue that has attracted huge sums of corporate money in an effort to convince people that it is not a problem that corporations should have to address. Ask yourself who benefits financially from lack of regulation designed to control emissions that affect the atmosphere. It is not us who will suffer the consequences of doing nothing, it will be our grandchildren and their grandchildren.