California to ban selling new gas-powered cars by 2035

[redpoint5]

I did get to enjoy some Octomore and quite enjoyed it. I've got a bottle of Lagavulin, Ardbeg Corryvreckan, Johnny Walker Red, and Glenfiddich in the cabinet.

Don't enjoy it often anymore, but did get to last night for annual "Lobster Fest", which is my wife's birthday celebration with another couple.

[freebeard]

I'm going to get a bottle for my friend for his (recent) birthday.

I can never remember if he likes Jim Beam or Johnny Walker, but I can remember one of my favorite [aliases/aliai?] – Jimmy Bodger.

(Best alias ever? — Tyrone Shoelaces)

[redpoint5]

In my estimation, Jamison strikes a good quality/price balance for regular consumption.

[sgtlethargic]

Burning boatloads of petroleum products daily seems short-sighted. "****ting the nest" seems to violate the survival instinct.

[sgtlethargic]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

... as I'm always saying, you know a politician is either corrupt or profoundly ignorant (or both) when they write a specific prescription for a broad problem. If you want to reduce fossil fuel consumption, you increase the tax on it.

Taxation is your prescription?

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by sgtlethargic

Taxation is your prescription?

No.

Running a cost/benefit analysis of the issue, determining a target level of emissions based on that analysis, and collaborating with the world on a tax strategy to achieve those emission targets would be my prescription.

Instead we have polar opposite thinking where "CO2 is bad and should be avoided at any cost" to "CO2 doesn't matter at all and can be ignored at any cost".

You trying to shut this thread about libations down?

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

we have polar opposite thinking where "CO2 is bad and should be avoided at any cost" to "CO2 doesn't matter at all and can be ignored at any cost"

Under specific conditions, even the Nitrogen oxides become beneficial.

[sgtlethargic]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

Instead we have polar opposite thinking where "CO2 is bad and should be avoided at any cost" to "CO2 doesn't matter at all and can be ignored at any cost".

We should only have moderate paradigm shifts? The possible consequences aren't serious enough? We haven't delayed enough? What?

[sgtlethargic]

Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr

Under specific conditions, even the Nitrogen oxides become beneficial.

You're looking for the bright side of the screwed up ecosystem?

[sgtlethargic]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

Running a cost/benefit analysis of the issue, determining a target level of emissions based on that analysis ...

A cost-benefit analysis?! What are the possible benefits that might come from risking climate catastrophe?