Iowa Global Warming » plug-in electric hybrids http://iowaglobalwarming.org Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:15:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 Howard Learner: Look for winners in solving global warming http://iowaglobalwarming.org/news/howard-learner-look-for-winners-in-solving-global-warming/ http://iowaglobalwarming.org/news/howard-learner-look-for-winners-in-solving-global-warming/#comments Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:58:55 +0000 Andrew http://iowaglobalwarming.org/?p=105 Solving our global-warming problems is the moral, economic, policy, political and technological challenge of our times. Fortunately, there are smart, clean renewable-energy and energy-efficiency developments and clean-car innovation strategies that are good for the economy, create new green jobs and improve the environment.

The naysayers keep arguing that reducing global-warming pollution is too expensive and too difficult. We’ve heard this refrain before: Seat belts supposedly would dramatically increase the costs of cars, make no safety difference and wouldn’t be used by drivers and riders. Catalytic converters wouldn’t really reduce pollution and would make cars unaffordable. Reducing sulfur dioxide that causes acid rain would cause electric rates to skyrocket and not help the environment very much.

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