[driftless]

Very true. The leftist environmentalist wacko taken to his logical extension is Ted Kaczynski. We should all live in a small wood or mud hut and walk or ride a bicycle. Group hugs for entertainment after singing The Internationale.

[Pitchfork]

Interesting that no one has mentioned foreign energy dependence. We now import over 75% of our oil needs. To sustain this we have to whore our military out to any pissant Arab feudal holding that can hire a good Washington lobbyist while holding our noses and pretending they and any other backward anti-democratic regime in the region is some how our closest ally since the Brits in WWII.

OR

We must consider tearing up the last areas of completely unspoiled wildeness (perhaps our country's--and the worlds--most rapidly vanishing resource).

I'm all into personal freedom and choice but folks our choices have wider implications. I'd generally like to see our society become less wasteful more energy efficient and less poluting for a host of reasons. But the most important is so my kids will have clean air to breath, water to drink, wild spaces to visit and won't have to put themselves in harm's way to defend the 'soverignty' of some petty Arab sheik just so I commute to the office alone in my sub 10mpg monstrosity.