Wow, great investigation. Just another way for them to get more money from us!

If I could afford the gas money to drive to the recycling center weekly, sure, I'd recycle ... Bring on curbside pickup!

More tax, more government.

It's hard to believe we were lied to about taxes, isn't it.

Now, thanks to Al Gore and his buddies, we can expect a federal carbon tax soon. California is trying it now. I guess we will see how gullible America is during this voting cycle.

What this means for the average citizen is: if you have more than two children, have more than one car, have a car with mileage too high (as determined by your favorite politician), have more garbage than average, a higher electric bill per person than average or any other usage higher than they determine your carbon footprint to be, then you will pay a carbon tax.

A greater scam than that is being able to pay for a carbon credits to be able to claim that you are "carbon neutral."

I agree with the founder of the weather channel. We should take those people to court, for fraud, who promote the false global warming and accept the carbon credits.

The data is clear and the majority of scientists agree that Carbon Dioxide can not cause global warming. The only scientists who still believe it are part of the United Nations council on climate change and others whose grants and income depend on their testimonies . They are liable too.

I agree we should all conserve energy, drill for more oil domestically, become energy independent, develop hydrogen and alternate powered vehicles and appliances and leave our planet in better shape for our children. I am not willing to line the pockets of lawyers who claim to be environmentalists just because they tell us to.

As long as people are ignorant enough to believe the lies, then we will continue to be taxed to support the lies.

People, it is time now to vote out these thieves and scammers once and for all.

Freedom is worth fighting for. Taxation without representation is worth fighting against. Remember the big tea party over a 1/2% tax increase?

Good catch!

I still can't believe that over a third of Americans are illiterate and over half don't graduate high school.

The global warming alarmists are learning about the positive effects of Carbon Dioxide, but ignore it.

In the meantime, they are going to rake in all the cash they can.

...Then again what do all those journalists and scientist types know...hippies and M-TV really know whats going on.

I do believe in resource conservation. Personal resources should be conserved especially the way this economy is. I do think that the "shopping spree" is critical to local vibrancy but, Americans as a whole would do much better by saving more resources for a rainy day. Recycling can be part of that, as aluminum and other scrap metal can bring a pretty penny that could be individually conserved.

Natural Resources are a different matter.

-The condition and abundancy of non polluted fresh water is probably my biggest concern.-

On the subject of energy, I do not believe there is much need for conservation. I would bet there is more oil than sand in Saudi Arabia and more oil than tumbleweeds in Texas. I hear speculation on massive amounts of oil sand deposits throughout the rocky mountains and coal is incredibly abundant as well: especially around here. I do not see any wisdom in using food for fuel in the form of ethanol: where is the moral high ground in burning food when so many on our planet go hungry? Do you know what the price of rice in China is? Record levels. (Investment tip: ag is bullish MON, MOS)

I sure would like to see our nations energy policy reflect a sence of practicality. How about building some more refineries or more new coal fired power plants. Put people to work and find real solutions to our energy crisis. Pipedreams of alternative energy solutions only cause the poor and the meager to suffer and make the middle class spend their disposable incomes on higher costing utility bills.

This is the malaise of our current economic state.

"If we would only turn our thermostats down a couple of degrees we could save all this energy." "If only Americans would not drive big vehicles or have big houses". "Americans eat to much and are obese as a people." Where does that leave us if we reverse all those truths about ourselves?

america...I'm pretty sure that scrapper won't accept #1 & #2 plastics, newspapers, magazines, cardboard and the various other items that are accepted at the local recycling center.

here is a link to a review of march 2008 weather patterns by the ncdc

http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/rese...

I really wish they would have named "global warming" something different. All of you naysayers get hung up on the word warming. It isn't solely about the temperature. Through March of this year there has already been a record number of tornados. Hurricanes and the likes are becoming stronger and more frequent.

How does a group of people win a Nobel award if there is no merit to their claims?

I don't see our country prospering. I do see Big Oil making a few billion extra dollars. It might just be me, but I blame them for about ninety percent of the problems in this country. So if I can stick it to "The Man" I will. I am in the process of looking for a cheap diesel truck so I can run it on vegetable oil. Grow my own food so I don't have to pay outrageous food costs. Walk to places if it is feasible. Use less electricity. I am doing my part to save the world, are you?

Hey gcp I appreciate the link and enjoyed the lecture. =)

If you pay someone enough money, you can get them to say whatever you want.

Oh and GCP you would lose that bet. I use Apple products exclusively. I think they work better.

High fuel prices and the housing market is the problem with this country. Overpopulation doesn't help. I think a couple should only be allowed one child. We don't live on family farms anymore. We don't need the extra farmhands.

It is politically motivated because he ask for political donations in the movie.

I use mostly Apple , too.

I was hoping you would mention that.

In 2007, Apple profits were up another 78% with another $4 Billion on a revenue of over $30 Billion.

On your point of population control, China has recently tried this too, by murdering their females when they were born. Is this really what you meant?

Let's form another branch of government to keep married couples at one child. I think it should be called the United Communist Socialist Progrssive Chinese Department of Human Population control.

We can raise taxes to pay for it. No one will care, as long as everyone is treated exactly the same (except the wealthy...we can tax them more).

LOL. If that is true then I must be God.

Sadly I don't know how to effectively enforce it. China quit killing them years ago when they'd found out that children were a commodity. I read the other day that China done away with the one child law. Probably to look good for the olympics.

"save the planet:kill babies" I can see that on a bumber sticker.

lol...we would need a constitutional amendment.

No. Not really.