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Councilman said:

What is needed is leadership that avoids the political Bovine Scatology and ignores Environmentally ill groups and shuts down the EPA's nonsense, and works to solve the energy problems using brains and logic that most in the groups I mentioned and Government lack but by 100%.

We have technology that allows coal to be used to generate clean power.

We have technology to build totally electric cars with sufficient range to handle about 95% or more of all our travel needs, but the costs are made too high for no most people to afford. Why?

You had better wake your dumb ass up to the reality that man caused Global Warming is a HOAX being used to tax the living hell out of us for nothing.

You are falling for lies that are going to lead to poverty in a scale never seen in this Nation, and that will lead to tragedy and death.

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Your commentary is confusing.

On the one hand, you're saying the U.S. should start looking at better, more economical and savvy fuel alternatives, i.e., clean coal and electric cars, but on the other hand you're saying global warming isn't as "problematic" nor will be as catastrophic as some predict. If I've read you wrong, I ask that you please clarify. For the record, you'd be the FIRST and ONLY Conservative I've heard echo such sentiments which I actually agree with.

I DO NOT believe global warming in and of itself is a man made problem. I believe the Earth works in cycles. We had ice ages long before fossil fuels. Man's carbon footprint may be escalating Earth's warming/cooling cycle a bit faster, but I don't believe man is creating this problem. I see it as part of the nature of the planet. It's this rock's way of either balancing itself (or to put it another way correcting the screws man makes, i.e., cutting down some many trees...nature's oxygen scrubbers).

On the issue of this country becoming more energy independent, I do believe we need to be far more aggressive in producing more energy efficient vehicles and power sources. After all, why should Ford produce a hybrid vehicle run off diesel fuel that gets 100 MPG while here in the US we're still barely getting past fuel efficiency standards that were set in the 1970's? I remember reading the sticker info on cars back in the '80s that made claims of getting 18-22 MPG city. I looked at the sticker of a 2011 Buick vehicle at my local mall just this weekend and it listed MPG in the city at - 18 MPG! In 2011!!! No wonder two of our auto companies needed a bailout!

Thirty-years later and the fuel economy of our cars really haven't budged! Sure, were get more stylish vehicles with the latest gadgets, DVD players, sunroofs, anti-lock brakes, individual A/C controls, GPS, Blue Tooth, On-Star/Sync, better crash resistant A-frames, etc., but c'mon! You mean to tell me Europe deserves vehicles with the same or better upgrades in design and fuel efficiency but we do? And it's not just our automobiles. It's also our homes and workspaces.

Councilmen may be overhyping the fear factor here, but I don't think his assessment of our lag behind other nations who got many of their ideas on energy efficiency from us mind you is off base.