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Originally posted by kaisen
Just a rant and rambling, sorry. But I don't get it.
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Here is something that you might get: It took ~120 years to burn the first trillion barrels of oil. It will take 30 years to burn the next trillion. (At projected rates).
Before you question the source of this info as being from a "tree hugger" org., it came from a Chevron ad in yesterday's NY Times. The U.S.A., (by far the world's largest energy consumer), could cut its use of oil
in half, tomorrow if every pencil-neck geek using a Suburban to haul (1) person switched to even a mid-sized car. (~23 mpg). And Suburbans don't get 18 mpg, maybe if you pushed it off a cliff. (I can dream).
I know that they are great tow vehicles, but even most suburban Mpls. folks use it for that a few hours a year. Enterprise and U-haul rent trucks by the hour or day. (That's how they handle that problem everywhere else in the world, no one drives a tank on the roads). I'm much more angry at my government having no real energy policy for decades, (Dem and GOP), than I am at consumers who bought trucks for daily drivers when gas was a dollar @ gallon. (It might as well have been free at those prices). And gas is $2.10 in the twin cities?? WTF is he complaining about? We go to sleep at night here dreaming about the good old days when gas was $2.10. Try $2.97 for premium yesterday. Every time I fill up, I'm overcome w/ rage at my stupid, greedy government and all of us sheep who let big oil and Detroit set energy policy. We're in Iraq right now because of it, and Cheney's stock options are looking SWEEEEET.
