10-02-2009, 09:59 AM
While in general I don't think this is a money issue, to answer your question more specifically Hoof there is plenty of money at stake.
Dow, General Dynamics, 3M and every alternative fuel manufacture which includes the US food industry certainly have a ton of products and plenty to gain from an industrial perspective.
Plus just follow the money politically. Green political contributions in this decade are almost 27 million dollars, while that is only 11% of what the anti green (oil companies etc) contributions are where they have succeeded is in lobbying efforts. Still 27 million is no joke.
Because most Green groups are non profit they are not allowed to make political contributions. However they are not banned from hiring lobbiest. Pro-enviormental, alternative energy groups employe almost 2500 lobbiest which out numbers anti-enviormental, carbon based groups by 4 to 1.
Lets not forget that now our own goverment owns two car companies it is in the best interest of the US to continue to push hybrids etc. Just look at the small print of new GM commercials, "paid for by the US Treasury Department".
Think of this issue like Abortion. It originally starts as people not wanting to kill babies. However it ends up becoming a political issue through and through which in the end bastardizes the original intent.
100% of the pro-enviormental contributions and lobbiest efforts have gone to Democrats. The issue is a defining line between Democrats and Republicans just like Abortion.
While Abortion and its resolution isn't a political issue it became one. To sway people on Abortion is to sway people politically. To sway people on Global Warming means to sway people politically.
In other words it is a political marketing sceme. How better to create more Democrats between the age of 18 to 24 then by dominating the advertising and promtion of the concept of trying to make the world a better place. Who doesn't want to do that?
Once you make an issue a political one now even more money is at stake. More money gets spent to win the political battle which has no real relevance to resolving the original issue at all. More money is being spent to win the Abortion/Global warming issue politically then will ever be spent to solve them.
Vllad
Dow, General Dynamics, 3M and every alternative fuel manufacture which includes the US food industry certainly have a ton of products and plenty to gain from an industrial perspective.
Plus just follow the money politically. Green political contributions in this decade are almost 27 million dollars, while that is only 11% of what the anti green (oil companies etc) contributions are where they have succeeded is in lobbying efforts. Still 27 million is no joke.
Because most Green groups are non profit they are not allowed to make political contributions. However they are not banned from hiring lobbiest. Pro-enviormental, alternative energy groups employe almost 2500 lobbiest which out numbers anti-enviormental, carbon based groups by 4 to 1.
Lets not forget that now our own goverment owns two car companies it is in the best interest of the US to continue to push hybrids etc. Just look at the small print of new GM commercials, "paid for by the US Treasury Department".
Think of this issue like Abortion. It originally starts as people not wanting to kill babies. However it ends up becoming a political issue through and through which in the end bastardizes the original intent.
100% of the pro-enviormental contributions and lobbiest efforts have gone to Democrats. The issue is a defining line between Democrats and Republicans just like Abortion.
While Abortion and its resolution isn't a political issue it became one. To sway people on Abortion is to sway people politically. To sway people on Global Warming means to sway people politically.
In other words it is a political marketing sceme. How better to create more Democrats between the age of 18 to 24 then by dominating the advertising and promtion of the concept of trying to make the world a better place. Who doesn't want to do that?
Once you make an issue a political one now even more money is at stake. More money gets spent to win the political battle which has no real relevance to resolving the original issue at all. More money is being spent to win the Abortion/Global warming issue politically then will ever be spent to solve them.
Vllad