Quote: "Maybe, just maybe, if we can get our government out of the pockets of big oil,coal etc., they will get into funding renewable energy sources that will make us able to use wind, solar etc. efficiently instead of giving their greedy contributors tax breaks."
Not talking about big oil, it's the the government.
Given time and technology, renewable energy sources could become pliable. Why come off sounding like a defeatist against the idea? Remember, the defeatists said they would never walk on the moon.
Quote:"I think electric cars are a perfect example of putting the cart before the horse, while we struggle with higher energy cost and more and more pollution from coal powered generating plants, we're to believe that electric cars are making a difference. Whether you belch co2 out of an exhaust pipe or a smoke stack, it's still co2."
Yes it is still CO2. But how many miles does the car get from a charge, and how much CO2 is put into the atmosphere to run that car per mile as per using an internal combustion engine? And why can't that source of energy for the electric car come from a wind mill or solar panel instead of a coal plant? Because too many naysayers are keeping that from happening with their "Rushbeckian" philosophy.