Outsider, your assumptions are incorrect; I am doing all I can personally to reduce my carbon footprint, from family gardening, raising chickens, and cycling to a family electric car - a 2012 Volt, which is amazing and averages over 220 mpg. Your dismissal by hyperbole and attacks on the messengers' credibility is a sign of flawed logic. There are now 1 million electric vehicles on the road and we cannot move in that direction fast enough. For those who dismiss electric, and the solar, hydro, wind future, simply study EVs and open your mind to the possibilities.  We need both individual and institutional efforts to shift the current bias (and massive subsidies) for dirty, expensive fossil fuels toward a cleaner, economically vibrant renewable energy future.