I'd like to know what an earlier poster based his assertion on regarding oil companies being good stewards of the environment - Big Oil's ads? I've fished the coast of Louisiana on many occasions and in my experience, "good stewards" is the last phrase I'd use to describe the crap that was left everywhere. Maybe what I saw was the result of smaller companies and not the giants, and if that's the case, I stand corrected. But as Miss Kitty says, it's alot easier lettin' the cat out of the bag than puttin' it back in.
Plus, we're still stuck with a dirty, non-renewable resource with exponential (China & India) demand. Aren't we smart enough to come up with a better solution?
And nuclear power scares the bejeesus out of me. Yes, it's "clean" when it's created, but the radioactive waste remains active for 10,000 years. How is that being "good stewards?"
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/07/0711_020711_yuccaspikes.html
Each generation does what's good for them, and future generations be damned. Those future generations are our children and grandchildren. I'd like to leave them a better legacy.