Certainly green tech has been making a lot of progress over the last few years and we’re starting to see solar and wind technology achieve parity with coal for power generation. It’s a good thing because most people are voting with their pocketbooks. If going green means saving green, people will do it. The green tech revolution is the full realization of this principle, environmentalism gone smart. I just can’t wait until they have decent LED bulbs available.

I mean that has worked so perfectly so far, right? Just ask Bear Sterns?

I think we can all do better than stop at the conclusion you come to here. Until that last sentence though, this was a reasonably responsible opinion. Were it that everyone could reasonably (and this goes for BOTH sides of this issue) stick to the simple guidelines you’ve described here, we would probably see much more progress.