Texas has been ranked last in the “How Green Is My State?” assessment by MPH Online, a site that gathers and analyzes information on public health education, according to Fuel Fix: Using data on each state’s renewable energy production, gasoline use, air quality and other measures, MPH Online determined that the Lone Star State is the least green state in the country. Texas ranked high for its friendliness to renewable energy, as nation’s No. 1 state for installed wind power capacity. But Texas is the nation’s worst when it comes to air quality and CO2 emissions, the organization determined. Texas’ position on the list also was hurt by its high gasoline consumption and low mass transit use. Texans use about 5.5 million gallons of motor gasoline per day, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/07/17/texas-ranks-last-on-green-state-list/
Causation for sure. Surely you know better than to use one comparison as a correlation. Just throw California in there and you r-squared value is going to be cut in half. That was a pretty lazy rebuttal.
Yeah, actually, whoever put this list together must have never visited east texas. I mean sure, west texas and all the way to abilene is pretty brown, but east texas piney wood -- I tell you what -- that's pretty darned green!
damn our bustling economy that gives people the income to drive big ass trucks if they so please, and damn our relatively cheap gas prices. maybe we should just all move to San Fran where they're more environmentally aware and friendly. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/7FAI_-woNh4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
very true. tell them boys to go visit places like Nac and Lufkin. I got a ranch up in a place called Rusk, and it's unbelievable how green and lush and piney the landscape is. makes the woodlands look like El Paso.
Holla! I know Rusk, and my parents now live in the (meth-infested former timber boom town of) Lufkin!
lol awesome. yeah, ya know I've been just about everywhere in TX and I gotta say, when I'm up there I feel it doesn't get much more isolated than that. I even went there with my family on y2k, just in case. OT, but when the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster happened, NASA searched around my property and found numerous bits and pieces from the shuttle. they even game me a nice little plaque to hang on the wall.
last in green, 1st in job creation wonder if there is a connection..... just say no to luddite deprivation
