GLOBAL WARNING!

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I am sitting in the dark as I am writing this. Well, not really. It is light outside, but its a grey, cloudy day and its just a tad shadowy in the house. However, I am determined to do my bit to save energy after the devastating report on global warming was released in Paris yesterday. Not that I needed confirmation. I trusted Al Gore's assessment when he first tried to warn us about Greenhouse Effect 10 years ago. And true to form, during this same week, while leading world scientists came to the same terrifying conclusion that humans are the cause of Global Warming, the Bush Administration was grilled about routinely censoring or altering reports of U.S. government scientists to take out references to its reality. Why am I not surprised.
So here I sit, the lights are out, but the refrigerator is humming behind me, the heat just clicked on and of course the computer is purring in front of me. So pardon me for asking: How willing are we to give up all of our electric gadgets? May I propose ( and I know you are going to hate me for even suggesting it) a huge tax on electricity? And even more taxes on gasoline? I say unless it hurts financially,there is little hope that people will voluntarily curb their usage.
I know it would motivate me. As a matter of fact it already works. I just changed my energy supplier and opted for the 50% alternative energy source. It costs more, but hey, I am doing it for my kids and for their future. Now if I could only get them to curb the use of their electronics...