i want to go back to that first point and maybe end there. because it s concrete and tangible. meat and animal protein grown for the consumption of the first world is one of the most carbon intensive things we could do. and a lot of people view it as essentially like big gas-guzzling suvs at some point. it will become less and less sustainable. yes, exactly. so the more that the northern world like voluntarily switches its diet and it s easier for us to eat these plant-heavy diets, the better. i would say on the side of like climate policy and things the government can do, and back to the usda point, there s actually a lot that ranchers could be made to do that would make the meat we already eat like much better for the climate. so, for instance, if they closed all the open manure pits. that would save us a lot of methane emissions. but that s hard and like ranchers don t want to do and the government needs to make them. and so not only like are there great benefits to us switching
if google knows i m searching for a hybrid vehicle it s going to serve up now ads for hybrid vehicles or vehicles like that. why would it serve up an ad for a big gas guzzling pickup when i m not in the market for that. reporter: some say by gathering the information google is building a profile about with you and some of that information, including the results of medical searches on the web may be sensitive. with the internet you can taylor it much more clearly and precisely, and so, you know, it has its up side. the downside is a lot of the consumers don t know what is being collected and when it s collected, and i think they should know. reporter: in this 12-page letter that was sent to eight lawmakers on the hill this week google said that the data is secure, the data is not being sold, and that there are privacy tools online to opt out. lawmakers make the point that most consumers don t know how to opt out of all of these options and to use their computers to do
this administration has rolled out epa rules and restrictions on drilling and restrictions on exploration. the president may talk a good game for re-election but he believes in high gas prices. martha: you know, there is that quote that floated around for some time, susan, basically saying maybe if we had the kind of prices they have in europe people would stop driving these big gas-guzzling suv s in this country. that does lead many to take a look at their policies and say maybe they are okay with this. maybe they truly think that the way to encourage people to become more conservative in their energy use is to punish them at the pump. no. i mean, you re right, martha, you re instinct is completely right. look, i do think that this administration is interested in pushing conservation? of course. the major tool has actually be trying to force car manufacturers to get their numbers down on miles per gallon. nobody likes high energy prices. but i don t think anybody who is
complain and saying do the i feel your pain, first of all, you could say i fieel your pain nobody believes it. this company was started at the time of corrupt social measures. it falls on him and all these other oil companies. all these other oil companies didn t spend one dime invest ng a cleanup technology and you can argue that certainly has affected their bottom line of profitability. we see they re in pretty bad shape. get off your high horse, because the fact of the matter is, as long as americans continue to want and demand the very cheapest in fuel and are not prepared to invest in the clean technologies, the higher taxes necessary, they want to drive big gas-guzzling vehicles, you re going to end up with profit first. no problem there. you re right on that one. that one gets us into trouble all the time because everybody wants some very discreet entity