I lean libertarian, but where hard core right wing libertarians get off course on the subject of environmentalism is that nobody can 'own' the atmosphere. Thus if it is not protected via laws and regulations, it is sure to fall victim to the tragedy of the commons. Further, it is shared between countries making it an even bigger problem that cannot be solved or even mitigated by the market.

My mother in law worked for a groupon competitor. Groupon is known for purposly missleading and screwing their customers. The bad thing is that the businesses that are most likely to fall for it are little mom and pop places that may not survive.

I have converted to mostly CFLs in my house over the years. I only buy the instant on ones. I usually stock up when they are on a good sale, so I get them at a decent price. About a year ago, i started collecting the burnt out ones in a drawer in my garage to be disposed of properly all at once, saving time. So far I have only collected 2 burnt out CFLs. I have found that putting a CFL in an inclosed light fixture with an incandecent will shorten it's life substantially.

It's really too bad we are relaxing regulations to keep Older nuke plants around instead of relaxing regulations to make it easier to build new much safer ones. Our national strategy for nuclear safety is completly ass-backwards.

how do you make a vaccine without a virus? Excuse my ignorance, please explain

Keeping the samples around in case they are needed to produce vacines seems like a reasonal policy to me. But 3 billion dollars seems like an awful lot of money to spend preparing for an unlikely scenario, one of perhaps thousands of unlikely scenarios.

I worked for a small upstart software company where they decided to mandate that everyone work half day Saturdays. Over time most of the best developers left, including myself. I honestly don't know how well they are doing now, I'm not sure why companies sometimes feel compelled to drive away anyone who has the skills to get a job elsewhere.

Obviously, this shows that their country wide cloaking device works very well.

Environmentalism is a byproduct of prosperity. If people were living at a sustenance level they would not care about the environment at all. There is a nearly direct coloration between prosperity and economic freedom. A more socialist type system (less economic freedom) will tend to lead to less prosperity which will eventually lead to less concern for environmental stewardship. A balance must be found as regulation is certainly needed to keep the BPs of the world under control, but sway to far the other direction and you end up with far worse.