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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: HPilot who wrote (27991)	2/1/2010 3:57:33 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

it's almost impossible to get fired from the federal gov., esp for not doing your job

To: HPilot who wrote (27991)	2/1/2010 5:57:31 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

If the real job involved [for example] making meals for actual workers, instead of jetting around the world to stay in top hotels to attend environmental jamborees, traveling in limousine convoys, then there would be a big energy saving and CO2 emissions reduction: <the energy would simply shift from government to commerce, still no energy savings. > All jobs do not use the same amount of energy or emit the same amount of CO2. If Al Gore got a job coding cyberspace instead of roaring around in the stratosphere while heating his enormous house then his hot air emissions would dramatically decline. Of course I am joking and do not in the slightest think that Obama means that he will cut emissions in this way. He means he [the taxpayer and citizens] will fund the invention of amazing new technology which will enable even more government spivs to be employed while using less energy and emitting less CO2. Mqurice