How Progressive Are You?

[The Brain]

191/400

[garbon]

191/400

We're conservative twins!

[The Brain]

191/400

We're conservative twins!

I love you.

[garbon]

I love you.

:-*

[The Brain]

I love you.

:-*

Do you know what it feels like to say "I love you" to someone and not hear it back? I do. :'(

[Syt]

I love you.

:-*

Do you know what it feels like to say "I love you" to someone and not hear it back? I do. :'(

Is "bah" or "moo" not an equivalent substitute?

[Valmy]

215/400

Some of those things were bizarre.  Are Conservatives really convinced that Oil and Coal are great and we should NOT move to alternative fuels?

IIRC, the way the question was worded, it made it sound as if solar and wind power are our only alternatives to not using fossil fuels.  I put myself down as strongly disagreeing-- neither solar nor wind power are proven alternatives yet. 

IMO if you agreed with the statement, you were in favor of crippling the economy further and/or seriously distorting the market.

So for me, for now, fossil fuels FTW.

The market is already distorted in favor of fossil fuels through decades of directed foreign policy and subsidization.  I do not understand why this sort of distortion is praised by free market types but anything that throws a tiny bone at anything else is bad distortion.  If it were a free market we would have gone to alternatives long ago. 

But anyway certainly solar and wind cannot do the job all by themselves for the forseeable future, by their very nature they can only act as a supplement and can only become useful on a large scale with a 'smart grid' that can adjust for variable energy sources.  Unless some sort of remarkable advance is made in energy storage, of course.

I am not sure what you mean by "proven" I was not aware of evidence that suggested the energy produced by a wind turbine was not the same as energy produced by coal burning.  I am pretty sure both are very "proven" sources of electricity.

Finally, you are probably right and it was a misleading question.  Typical.

[Valmy]

215/400

Some of those things were bizarre.  Are Conservatives really convinced that Oil and Coal are great and we should NOT move to alternative fuels?

Questionnaires like this are problematic, or misleading. Probably not many people feel the future is mainly fossil fuels. The choice here probably shouldn't between remaining on fossil fuels OR moving to other alternatives. We actually need to be doing both while we decide on how to move forward the changes, and what those changes are. Kind of misleading to present the question like it was. Probably the same for some other questions. But over all this wasn't a bad poll, and made me think on some of the questions. I've seen worse, often in polls mailed out to me that pushes a particular agenda. I've even responded to some of them on how useless or misleading their questions were.

Yeah this is what makes following politics so frustrating.  You literally cannot trust anything to give you decent facts.

[The Brain]

I love you.

:-*

Do you know what it feels like to say "I love you" to someone and not hear it back? I do. :'(

Is "bah" or "moo" not an equivalent substitute?

I for one consider half black gay men to be more than beasts.

[Neil]

I love you.

:-*

Do you know what it feels like to say "I love you" to someone and not hear it back? I do. :'(

Is "bah" or "moo" not an equivalent substitute?

I for one consider half black gay men to be more than beasts.

Mistake.

[The Brain]

Anyway, we need more nuclear power.

[Syt]

I love you.

:-*

Do you know what it feels like to say "I love you" to someone and not hear it back? I do. :'(

Is "bah" or "moo" not an equivalent substitute?

I for one consider half black gay men to be more than beasts.

More than beasts? Monsters?

[Malthus]

I for one consider half black gay men to be more than beasts.

Yes, but more what?

[The Brain]

I love you.

:-*

Do you know what it feels like to say "I love you" to someone and not hear it back? I do. :'(

Is "bah" or "moo" not an equivalent substitute?

I for one consider half black gay men to be more than beasts.

More than beasts? Monsters?

Monsters do not exist. Outside Ohio.

[Valmy]

Anyway, we need more nuclear power.

I agree!