The Greens say energy conservation standards should be enforced by allotting a specific amount of fuel to each state. This can be linked to strong incentives to plant trees, preserve aquifers, conserve water and other natural resources. The federal government is empowered with the ability to retaliate because it needs this authority to motivate the states into conscientious use of our natural resources. Everybody expects the government to do their work for them, by more and more regulations that have so many loop holes they are not enforceable in the first place. Every regulation in the book is nothing but Swiss cheese. We make the cheese, then corporations bank all their ugly profits in Switzerland. Talk about drug money! Shame on the Swiss.
The military is the single biggest user of energy in the world. Yet they are also the most wasteful. Conserving energy at home immediately allocates more discretionary funds for operations overseas in the Asia theatre. Why is the military so wasteful of energy ~ and of out tax dollars that pay for it? Do they want to win the war against Iraq, or win the war against a clean Earth?