I think this is a Convenient Truth

I hate to be the one that breaks the bad news but this economy is worse than we thought. (Yes, that will come as a surprise to Biden more than any of you all, but he doesn't read my blog so he can just continue in denial for a little while longer.) The economy is now impacting sectors of the world business that we had previously thought were immune.
For instance, the world's oldest trade.The owner of one Berlin brothel was recently quoted as saying, "The recession has hit our industry hard". But is Thomas Goetz content to just see his bottom line dry up? No. He is a man of action.

Goetz quickly took the needs of the world, combined them, and has come up with a new tactic to increase his business.

He is offering a discount to customers that can prove they took public transportation to his brothel.That is correct. He is saving the environment and his working girls at the same time. And he has seen the fruits of his idea. Goetz says he has 3-5 new clients daily and his offer has helped alleviate traffic and parking congestion in the brothel's neighborhood.

I'm not even going to worry about why there was a traffic jam previously outside his brothel or why parking was a problem. I'm not going to jump into the fray over whether prostitution should be legal.
What I'm wondering is how we can tweak this idea and apply it here in the United States. I'm thinking if we could somehow tie environmental issues to that thorny issue of extramarital flings, our elected officials alone could reduce our country's greenhouse emissions enough to save the polar bears.Yes, that is what I am proposing. They have to prove they recycle before they can hike the Appalachian Trail. Show me your compact fluorescent bulbs before you get to go on any taxpayer funded weekend getaways. And before you get an intern? You gotta drive a Prius.Now, pass me that Nobel Prize for cleaning up the environment. My work is done.