Sanders: 'To hell with the fossil fuel industry’

[JDPriestly]

25. Replacing fossil fuels may be a long way away, but my mother was born in an era in which

she plowed with her feet as a child. She rode a wagon led by a horse to school.

Now think where we are. When was the last time you saw a child out in a big field plowing with her feet. That's a lifetime more than mine.

Germany has made great progress in switching to at least a greater percentage of renewable fuel, solar fuel, and Germany's climate is cold and wet. If Germany can start the transition, we can.

The key is that we need to start the transition or we will lose out. We are one of the biggest if not the biggest polluter on earth. We have to change our lifestyle so as to eventually cut out fossil fuels.

Here in California, we can see the workings of climate change. The ocean at our seashore is warmer. Our countryside is warmer too. Some of our drought may be due to historical fluctuations in rainfall. But not all of it.

Climate change is real, and the fossil fuel companies need to stop discouraging us from changing our economy so that their products become obsolete or close to obsolete.

Let me know how your horse is doing back their in your barn or stable. Because a century ago, lots of people still rode horses in parts of our country -- for transportation and work. Cars were around, but people still relied on horses in the country especially.