I do respect what Rev.Bingham is trying to do but again, this is another crusade against Global warming that has no anwsers. Changing a few lightbulbs is not going to do anything but save a few watts of electricity. This country is so close to being short on power during peak seasons. If you save a few megawatts here than they will be used elsewhere. Until somone comes up with a better idea than Coal buring powerplants it will not change. What will change is how the plants do buisness. I work for a company that is building “scrubbers” in thier power plants in order too reduce harmful emissions. It is the newest technology to fight No2 and So2. It’s a catch 22 because we need to burn coal in order to provide affordable energy but we also need to burn it as clean as we can. We are also building windfields to generate power but that is limited because of the lack of power they produce and the ammount of land they take up. Not to mention that nobody wants them in thier “Backyard”. Hydro power is about tapped and Gas is very expensive because of Transport issues. Again, Nobody wants a gas line running across thier land and in truth, I don’t blame them. Not everyone can just cut their electric lines and put Solar energy in thier homes. It’s very expensive and not very practical in alot of places. Conservation is the key. How can you take our government serious when they are preaching about Global warming while thier driving down the road in a Huge SUV or Limo? or in a custom 747? How does Al Gore get to one convention to another? on a Nat gas powered Plane? I don’t think so. Practicing what we preach needs to start at the top and it does not happen. ok,,i’m done ranting on this for now..

Environmental Minister? You’re kidding, right? This is hardly what I would call support by the faithful. But I guess to writers on TruthDig it’s as close as they’ll ever get or have ever gotten.