My nightly rant and my last post in this thread.. Read Quinny's rules on rants, they're great. Agree or disagree, we're all in the same boat and we need to stop:
Even though the gov't lied to your face, it's actually for our benefit, and when it boils down to it, on our behalf... for basically all of north america's benefit. or let me say .. less of a loss. our hunger for energy has put us there.
when you see someone driving a Hummer, that's basically why we're there. Overconsumption.. Our economy needs it though.. Automotive, steel, groceries, other industry. we all want it and have become used to it. Now, the cost of shipping is so low, keeping the price of our groceries reasonable compared to our earnings.. this is why we need it. But this is rapidly changing. Did you know that in Canada, the cost of diesel fuel is costing the shipping industry (trucking) $3billion EXTRA in just fuel costs?? where do you think that money goes?? do you think that the shipping companies pay for that? no, we pay for it.. we ALL pay for it. Terrorism ,or whatever it's called, is a result of our overconsumption. we want it, we run out of it.. so we have to go to other sources to get it. they won't trade, so we fight them and take it by installing pro-western lifestyle governments. we destroy a whole town.. the guy who posted here earlier sprays a whole building with gunfire trying to get his friend out.. you had better believe that kids are pissed.. I would be. I would imagine that me or a bunch of my friends would grow up and want to kill, or make the people pay for destroying my whole town.
and until recently, we've been really the only countries that need this oil. unless things change really soon.. we're headed towards a very, very major conflict.. and for what?
you make fun of hippies.. i do too. but we've know about this overuse of UN-renewable resources for years. in the past 20 years, what do you think the result of putting however many bazillion dollars into developing renewable resources and relying on ourselves for energy?? i'd say we'd be a hell of a lot safer..