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The Differences Between Chinese and U.S. Economic Recoveries

flflyer - You seem to be very well versed and informed on climate change (aka global warming). I'm not smart enough to argue with you on this topic, but I continue to suspect that the global warming crisis is overstated like all other political-economic crises in order to get attention and money.

Because of that, I think your side has been making a huge mistake in its packaging. There are a lot of us that don't really care about the arguments the global warming alarmists have been making, but we DO care about the national security, trade deficit, and jobs aspect the energy debate. That gives us a common cause even if for different results.

I would absolutely LOVE to see us move toward becoming energy independent with an energy "moon shot" that enabled us to stop sending our hard-earned dollars to petro-dictators in Latin America and the Middle East. By getting off oil/gasoline to as great a degree as possible, we could reduce the trade deficit, strengthen the dollar, weaken our enemies, create domestic jobs AND, if one cares, reduce carbon emissions.

That is the angle the climate change alarmists need to adopt, perhaps best articulated by Thomas Friedman. His positions make sense to libs and conservatives alike and make a whole lot more sense to me than seeing a few sympathetic polar bears struggling to find solid ground.