Gates and MS Don't See Eye-To-Eye On CO2

Sam Machkovech writes "Bill Gates's speech at last week's TED Conference centered on 'moving to zero-carbon energy, and our need to reduce CO2 emissions 80% by 2050.' His choice of subject was an abrupt turn from The Gates Foundation's typical humanitarian topics, but he insisted that energy innovation is crucial to his Foundation's goals. A move by Microsoft today proves that Gates's old company has less interest in that carbon-neutral goal — Microsoft has begun campaigning against a bridge redesign that would result in more bus and transit options for commuters between Seattle and the company's homebase of Redmond, WA."

Comments

Re:only 2 general lanes?

[Red Flayer]

HOV lanes are an insult to the taxpayers who pay for highways. They're an even greater insult to the drivers who pay never-ending tolls to use those roads, then are told that they can't use part of it while everyone sits in traffic wasting fuel and polluting.

Not carpooling is an insult to the taxpayers who pay for highways. What, you think *you* are so special that you need to wastefully use the resources *I* help pay for? Get off my roads, douchebag.

Your argument works better when it's applied to wasteful users of public resources.

Re:only 2 general lanes?

[PopeRatzo]

Hey, can I ask that they not use my tax money to build HOV lanes, then tell me I can't use them?

As long as I can ask that my tax dollars not be spent just so you can be all alone when you drive your pollution-spewing SUV to work.

Expecting the government to spend money just so a bunch of corporate stooges benefit. That's the "conservative" way!

Re:only 2 general lanes?

[PopeRatzo]

It's because nobody would want to spend an hour stuck in a car with operagost, listening to him spout his ill-informed pseudo-libertarian nonsense.

It's hard to carpool when nobody wants to be around you.