Today some asian guy (who barely spoke english) came to my door giving me a shower head, a sink faucet top and four energy saving light bulbs to reduce water and energy consumption. So this is where my environmental shipping tax money goes to (they charge consumers an environmental tax for getting things delivered to their house). The light bulbs are great.. but the faucet and shower head didn't fit (government efficiency at work).
All this while subsidizing tar sands. Nice.
The worst part is, some environmentalists don't seem to understand that since saving energy = saving money, I, and most other conscious people, would buy these government handouts anyway. My home is filled with these light bulbs; the handout just postponed my next purchase. Its probably more complicated than that though. The handout means artificial job creation; that is, someone is making money off of this (like that asian guy that came to my house).
Most environmentalists advocate reform, meaning that they want to steal the gun from corporations, instead of revolution, which is just backwards.
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