[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

It's convenient to blame someone else and thereby excuse your own behavior, isn't it? I mean, why should you have to sacrifice anything? We all share the responsibility for this, those companies don't exist without people buying their products.

[dougmwne]

Why should only some of us sacrifice? Aren't we all in this together? We need regulation that will change the carbon output of every single company, government agency, and individual, not the small attempts of a few green-minded individuals in their personal lives. "Personal responsibility" is just a thinly veiled anti-regulation and anti-government position. The only way out of this is government, unless you believe in technological leprechauns and unicorns, which I do not.

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

I'm not saying regulation isn't necessary, what I'm saying is that it shouldn't be an excuse to continue on as we are. If you're unwilling to sacrifice, and so is everyone else, how do you expect anything to get any better?