Finally, sensible talk about what really needs to be done! Ration Gas.

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11. It is a matter of people trying to snatch simple solutions out of thin air without thinking.

So, would you approve of my suggestion for rationing power to people in cities, while I do without gasoline? Perhaps you could buy vouchers from your neighbor so that you can run your heat on even and odd days during those long cold Winters. Perhaps doing away with hot water to bathe and eating cold food would help. You could do that starting today. Perhaps we could shut down the subways and people could walk to work...We could open the windows in the high-rises and do away with their internal climate control; think of the power that would save.

Until a viable system of transportation, using alternative fuels, you wont get much change. After all, it is not my driving to the grocery that does the biggest part of the pollution, I drive a KIA... it is hauling your food from the fields to the grocery store and hauling your Chinese knick-knacks from China to California, and from California to you home sweet home. It is the cement production facilities that make the products build the buildings you live in, and on and on. You can't fix climate change by curtailing personal driving.

My point is, is that it is a complex problem of not only mechanics, but politics, that will not be fixed by knee-jerk solutions. Yours or mine.

There are things that could be done if we had the political will. We mandate high mileage vehicles only and do away with the person who drives a 3/4 ton diesel pickup to his office job. We don't have the political will. It is my opinion that we will not have the political will when Miami is a man-made reef, or when Las Vegas has returned to the sand dunes from which it sprang either. We are a nation that can't even universally agree that man-made climate change or Covid is real....