re: #275 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We are sold the image of environmental whackos who want us to live in lean-tos and wipe our asses with leaves.

But it is alternative energy that represents the cutting edge of technology while fossil fuels are in fact, well, dinosaur technology.

Yep. The environmentalist gets painted as the other and the guy indifferent to the environment gets painted as Regular Joe in his pickup truck. Even though, the military has actually in recent years been trying to call to attention the importances of alternative energy sources because it is a national security question as well.