At least her comment is a moment of honesty in a sea of hypocrisy in which the liberal elite pledges concern about environmental destruction, then continues on with business as usual.

Our new, very popular governor — a purported “reformer”, will be tested very soon by profound issues like the designation of Stewart Airport (near Newburgh about 60miles north of GWB)as the 4th big regional. This would make it the biggest sprawl/traffic creation bomb since Moses highway system and the GWB itself.

Likewise, in Virginia’s world, all responses to global climate chage are sacrifices and pain-inducing. The idea that alternatives to her “toasty Subaru” might actually bring us greater pleasure and benefit is completely unthinkable.

This little article invites so much analysis I’m not even sure where to begin.

maybe we should look to the heroic birds of the ice for exoneration. Surely penguins would also have driven high-emission cars and burned fossil fuels on their 60-mile treks if they’d been smart enough to dream them up; would they have happily given up their toasty Subarus, and gone back to the tedious tottering over ice? No.

So in her world it’s ok to use your species native intelligence to increase your convenience and comfort, but not to save the fragile ecological balance that you have disrupted in the process. Screw the penguins. Let them fight back when they can grow a cerebral cortex that can concieve of an internal combustion engine.