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Originally Posted by David
The reality is the only advantage of a green product is human conscience and stupidity, outside of that at the moment, the cost of green products on the environment are as big, if not bigger than their traditional counterparts (take the production costs and carbon footprint of a Prius in it's entire lifetime vs most V8 cars)
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Even if there is a degree of truth to this, it only outlines the need for an ETS. By making companies pay for the real costs of their product (IE the environmental impact) the only reason for "Green" technology to exist is for marketing reasons. If you can market something as green that's enough, but with a properly working ETS it isn't enough, it actually has to do what they're advertising.
As to your other question, I'm not a Labour freak but I very much doubt that they'd be doing a worse job than the current government.