Policy back in the USA

Good article. Not a lot new in it but it is well written and there is a nice historical note in it about the development of US policy -and it is not all bad! I liked this quote "Three cheers for 80s era thinking! The authors, who run the market-oriented Rocky Mountain Institute, conclude that if the costs of the war had been invested in efficiency technology, we wouldn't have had to fight it in the first place. It's enough to make you slam your head against a flagpole over and over again."



Interstingly the article also reports: "Even though a recent Time/CNN poll shows finds that 75% of the American people think global warming is a "very serious" problem, only 48% said they would support paying 25 cents more per gallon to fix it."

And clearly this is viewed as negative [well, it isn't a majority] but in fact it is a much higher figure than I expected and it wouldn't take much for it to become a majority. As you can tell I'm normally a 'glass is half full' sort of person.