Change NOW!
Let’s talk reality.
As winter approached, suddenly natural gas prices sky rocketed.
As spring turns into summer, gasoline prices jump every single day.
As summer approaches, we are being warned that electricity will go up 72%.
I’ll be honest. I care about gas prices right now because it affects me on a daily basis, but I am disgusted with our lack of leadership and ingenuity when it comes to alternatives to oil/gas. I know for a fact that every aspect of alternatives are out there from vehicles to fuels but they are being blocked. Why has Woody Harrelson been marginalized? He has been driving a vegetable oil (used from restaurants) only bus around for ages trying to promote this environmentally friendly alternative with little to no coverage whatsoever. There is a lithium powered car (the same kind of battery that our cell phones use), as well as a multitude of alternative choice cars out there. So, why haven’t any of our representative made this their issue? Dem, indy or repub? Wouldn’t you, if you were in congress and saw this impending crisis? Wouldn’t you want to be the one that could do the press conference about how you had been researching all the alternatives available and you were pushing for legislation to be passed that gives huge rewards to our failing automakers for shifting gears and mass producing lithium or hydrogen or vegetable oil powered vehicles? You were moving to give gas station operators grants to adapt to this new technology so that their stations could become multi-functioning operations – not just for chips and trinkets but for high powered “quick charge” stations, used veggie oil distribution areas. Giving the public a comprehensive plan that covers everyone’s concerns – great tax breaks to anyone who buys these cars. Do you think that guy would have to spend a DIME to be re-elected? Not one cent.
Do not tell me that I am addicted to oil. I would hop a train in a heartbeat over driving in this area.
A heartbeat.
We have NO mass transit in my area.
No bus.
No cabs.
Nothing. You have to have a car. My kids are riding their bikes to school and I am riding mine to the gym. At least while it is still relatively cool outside. But we all know that Australia is having the worst hurricane season in its history, so what do you think ours is going to look like? We have already attained temperatures in the 100s here, regardless of what the weather guy says - I have a thermometer on my back porch. It has been over 95 degrees twenty times since March.
We have a president that refers to oil and gas customers as “our customers”.
We have a president who refuses to acknowledge global warming.
We have a president that has allowed the Gulf Coast to lay in ruins, I guess in the hopes that the next hurricane season will wash all the garbage and decay out to sea for good. That’ll save us some money.
We do not need to criminalize the oil and gas companies, we need to boycott them. I only go to Citgo now – it’s Venezuelan. We do not need to drill anywhere else. Let the oil and gas companies live their dying years out in the dirty wealth they have acquired (Exxon never did pay out for the Valdez oil spill in Alaska). We need to focus on forward thinking. Why are our car companies going under? You know the answer to this! Backward thinking!
How many big-ass, gas guzzling, hemi-engined, macho or sleek car commercials do we see in a day, without one reference to ridding ourselves of the “oil addiction”? When you only offer one thing to the masses you cannot then turn around and say – look! you are only using this one thing! You are irresponsible! You need to break the addiction!
Say what?
What is the alternative? Give us options. Give us a plan – how to get a car that uses something other than oil/gas, where to get it fueled up and repaired. I remember test driving a Prius last year. How long have these things been around – a few years – maybe four? And the car salesman had no idea how to turn it on. These are the guys that should be promoting these cars. They should know everything about them. But the profit isn’t huge and therefore the commission is low. What’s the incentive to them? They want to make a living.
Our country has got to get a grip and see the signs before us. We need to go back to our basic principles. I know that the Orange County housewives with all their wealth and plastic surgery is fascinating stuff as well as the glut of entertainment glorifying excess and decadence, but Rome be burning, y’all. Step away from the hypnotic draw of television and other entertainment and contact your representatives about jumping on alternative fuel automobiles. Tell them we want cars/trucks/vans/ SUVs that do not use oil/gas. We want a reliable transportation that runs off the sun, grass clippings, electronic waste, old paint, anything other than this limited natural resource. No more drilling. No more money into this dying industry. Break the addiction by demanding more choices. Not by 2050 or 2020 or even 2010. This country is packed full of enterprising people. Tap into this resource and get something up and running efficiently by 2008.
That’s plenty of time.
Just pretend it’s a war; we can make that happen pretty quick.
Let’s talk reality.
As winter approached, suddenly natural gas prices sky rocketed.
As spring turns into summer, gasoline prices jump every single day.
As summer approaches, we are being warned that electricity will go up 72%.
I’ll be honest. I care about gas prices right now because it affects me on a daily basis, but I am disgusted with our lack of leadership and ingenuity when it comes to alternatives to oil/gas. I know for a fact that every aspect of alternatives are out there from vehicles to fuels but they are being blocked. Why has Woody Harrelson been marginalized? He has been driving a vegetable oil (used from restaurants) only bus around for ages trying to promote this environmentally friendly alternative with little to no coverage whatsoever. There is a lithium powered car (the same kind of battery that our cell phones use), as well as a multitude of alternative choice cars out there. So, why haven’t any of our representative made this their issue? Dem, indy or repub? Wouldn’t you, if you were in congress and saw this impending crisis? Wouldn’t you want to be the one that could do the press conference about how you had been researching all the alternatives available and you were pushing for legislation to be passed that gives huge rewards to our failing automakers for shifting gears and mass producing lithium or hydrogen or vegetable oil powered vehicles? You were moving to give gas station operators grants to adapt to this new technology so that their stations could become multi-functioning operations – not just for chips and trinkets but for high powered “quick charge” stations, used veggie oil distribution areas. Giving the public a comprehensive plan that covers everyone’s concerns – great tax breaks to anyone who buys these cars. Do you think that guy would have to spend a DIME to be re-elected? Not one cent.
Do not tell me that I am addicted to oil. I would hop a train in a heartbeat over driving in this area.
A heartbeat.
We have NO mass transit in my area.
No bus.
No cabs.
Nothing. You have to have a car. My kids are riding their bikes to school and I am riding mine to the gym. At least while it is still relatively cool outside. But we all know that Australia is having the worst hurricane season in its history, so what do you think ours is going to look like? We have already attained temperatures in the 100s here, regardless of what the weather guy says - I have a thermometer on my back porch. It has been over 95 degrees twenty times since March.
We have a president that refers to oil and gas customers as “our customers”.
We have a president who refuses to acknowledge global warming.
We have a president that has allowed the Gulf Coast to lay in ruins, I guess in the hopes that the next hurricane season will wash all the garbage and decay out to sea for good. That’ll save us some money.
We do not need to criminalize the oil and gas companies, we need to boycott them. I only go to Citgo now – it’s Venezuelan. We do not need to drill anywhere else. Let the oil and gas companies live their dying years out in the dirty wealth they have acquired (Exxon never did pay out for the Valdez oil spill in Alaska). We need to focus on forward thinking. Why are our car companies going under? You know the answer to this! Backward thinking!
How many big-ass, gas guzzling, hemi-engined, macho or sleek car commercials do we see in a day, without one reference to ridding ourselves of the “oil addiction”? When you only offer one thing to the masses you cannot then turn around and say – look! you are only using this one thing! You are irresponsible! You need to break the addiction!
Say what?
What is the alternative? Give us options. Give us a plan – how to get a car that uses something other than oil/gas, where to get it fueled up and repaired. I remember test driving a Prius last year. How long have these things been around – a few years – maybe four? And the car salesman had no idea how to turn it on. These are the guys that should be promoting these cars. They should know everything about them. But the profit isn’t huge and therefore the commission is low. What’s the incentive to them? They want to make a living.
Our country has got to get a grip and see the signs before us. We need to go back to our basic principles. I know that the Orange County housewives with all their wealth and plastic surgery is fascinating stuff as well as the glut of entertainment glorifying excess and decadence, but Rome be burning, y’all. Step away from the hypnotic draw of television and other entertainment and contact your representatives about jumping on alternative fuel automobiles. Tell them we want cars/trucks/vans/ SUVs that do not use oil/gas. We want a reliable transportation that runs off the sun, grass clippings, electronic waste, old paint, anything other than this limited natural resource. No more drilling. No more money into this dying industry. Break the addiction by demanding more choices. Not by 2050 or 2020 or even 2010. This country is packed full of enterprising people. Tap into this resource and get something up and running efficiently by 2008.
That’s plenty of time.
Just pretend it’s a war; we can make that happen pretty quick.
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