Cognitive dissonance

There seems to be a deep disconnect between smarmy, jackass ideas and their implementation:

"Oooo, global warming! We have to have cap and trade!"

"Uh, we still need to drive."

"Uh, well, you need to drive electric cars!"

"The ones that exist wouldn't move a slightly overweight midget and cost five times that of a Cadillac."

"Don't care! It's global warming! And we're going to have to stop using oil and natural gas and coal!"

"What will we use instead? Solar?"

"Yes! And wind!"

"We're at least twenty years away from viable solar and wind energy. Are we to freeze to death in the interim?"

"It'll work! We just have to do it!"

"Okay. Who's paying homeowners the million dollars apiece it's going to cost to convert their homes to solar and wind?"

"They're just going to have to pay for it themselves! It's global warming! Oooo!"