[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by dd74

The fact is about being "green," I'm all for it. Or was. Now it's beginning to seem like a marketing ploy if not a whole holier than thou cultural movement, particularly in L.A.

There's the infighting - Prius people don't like Jetta diesel people and vice versa. If you're not recycling you're a criminal of humanity. If you drive a V8, you're evil. Hell, it's even gone into the cycling community, where people with titanium frames are shunned because it takes more energy to build that over carbon or steel.

Yada, yada, yada.

You have to compost, you have to use reusable goods, you have to grow your own victory garden, raid In n' Out burger for french fry oil, onward and onward.

And if one claims they don't have the time or energy for such endeavors, they're thought of as not caring for the environment and their fellow man.

Green has become a nasty socio-cultural phenomenon IMO of "us vs. them."

That stuff is very unattractive to me.

I just spend all of my money on Al Gore carbon credits to offset my guilt for being an American consumer. Oh yeah, and I dump my waste oil in the storm drain instead of the yard.