why doesn’t the us gov spend 50 billion on solar panels… free electricity within 5 years there paid off and it’d probably save like ten million barrels of oil a year and create a lot of jobs within the country
if they can spend 800 billion of just borrowed money for the stimulus do the same for this project it’d pay itself off in cleaner air ec.. in ten years. else were gonna spend the next 50 trying to reverse this trend were in.

We could have electric cars that are fueled at home with solar panels on our houses. Why are we doomed to be stupid?
Wow! There are a lot of haters out here! Looks like Yahoo! Answers woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.
BTW, **** OFF HATERS! I HOPE YOU DIE OF CANCER!

Anyone with a home of over 10,000 square feet must modify the home to be powered solely on solar power or wind power.

After all, every little bit helps, and people who live in 10,000 plus square foot houses have huge carbon footprints due to their heating and power requirements. If every house over that size was powered by green energy, it would definitely reduce pollution, dependence on oil/coal, etc.

If you support efforts to reduce carbon emissions, do you also support this suggestion? If not, why not?
I’m not suggesting that we allow carbon offsets. I’m suggesting that if Global Warming is real, then Al Gore and Sheryl Crow and others who live in giant homes should have no issue with modifying them to be completely green. No credits available.
smcgilli….. you must have missed my point.

The people clamoring for us to use one sheet of toilet paper, and turn the heat down to 67 degrees, live in 10,000, 15,000 and 20,000 square foot mansions. My suggestion is, if they are right and global warming is going to kill the planet, then they should have no objection to turning their luxury homes completely green. Right? Wanna bet how fast they’d sidestep this….?
sarge — you missed the point too…. you’re talking about what’s “fair.” What would be “fair” is if Sheryl Crow and Al Gore HAD THE SAME CARBON FOOTPRINT AS YOU AND ME. People in 10,000 square foot homes in Malibu, and private villas, and airports in their front yards, are telling you and me that WE have to spend money greening out homes, but they don’t green theirs. WE have to drive hybrid cars and bio-diesel, they say – but they fly in jets 100 times per year — WE have to use one square of toilet paper, and THEY make sure their entourages and themselves are bathed in luxuries while on “tour” and making movies (which are pure luxuries – and major pollution sources).