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RE: California appears poised to be first to ban power-... - 10/25/2009 5:46:36 PM

PolyVinyl

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You know, a few years back, when America started slowly but surely increasing the sound level of 'I want to help the environment'... I was wondering what people would do to make money off of it (as in scams and such)....

I don't see what's wrong with the idea of enforcing a maximum on pollutant outputs... I don't know much about this Cap & trade system, but I can already tell from a cursory search that it's going to be abused. I miss grassroots campaigns and people in big corporations who still had shreds of humanity. Those two systems were what really balanced out the rampant disregard of the environment that is so prevalent nowadays.

I work in a print shop... I feel so bad every time I have to laminate something

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RE: California appears poised to be first to ban power-... - 10/25/2009 11:23:05 PM

kittyboy

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I don't know the figures off-hand but the new LED tv's coming out are running with a lot less heat output and lower power consumption (Samsung are claiming 40% less than equivalent LCD panels).

As for built in obsolescence, Doc Martins almost went out of business because their boots were lasting so long so people didn't need to buy new ones, all new DMs now have thinner soles. Same principle. The general thinking when it comes to consumer electronics is that kit is now obsolete within 3-6 months, most users replace within a 2 year period with more and more trying to keep up with the tech curve and upgrading every 6 months with the latest and greatest. Wish I had that kind of money :P

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